Wacky Packages Forum
General Discusions about Artists & Illustrators => Artists & Illustrators => Topic started by: dth1971 on April 11, 2010, 08:19:06 PM
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Did you know Off the Mark (newspaper panel comic strip) creator Mark Parasi is a fan of Wacky Packages? He helped with the recent 5th. series of Wacky Packages Postcards.
Mark did 3 weeks of Wacky Packages takes in his Off the Mark strip in 2007-2008.
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Did you know Off the Mark (newspaper panel comic strip) creator Mark Parasi is a fan of Wacky Packages? He helped with the recent 5th. series of Wacky Packages Postcards.
Mark did 3 weeks of Wacky Packages takes in his Off the Mark strip in 2007-2008.
As always, thanks for the support. But it's "Parisi."
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I love the fact that I can read "Off the Mark" every day off of Facebook. I enjoy it a lot. If you are on FB, you should become a fan of Mark's strip.
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I get the Off The Mark strip in my daily Comics.com e-mail.
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Thanks for the love, guys! It looks like I'm going to have a few gags in the next ANS, too.
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I noticed in an April 2010 Off the Mark strip Mark's daughter did a strip as a guest artist in honor of "Take Your Daughter to Work Day'.
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I noticed in an April 2010 Off the Mark strip Mark's daughter did a strip as a guest artist in honor of "Take Your Daughter to Work Day'.
I saw that too. I love being able to see Mark's new cartoons every day via Facebook. It is a great noon-time chuckle for me.
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Thanks for the love, guys! It looks like I'm going to have a few gags in the next ANS, too.
Great news!
One of my bosses, Cate, who is a gene-jockey (a plant breeding scientist) just returned from a vacation to Austrailia, and I spoke to her this afternoon.
She told me there was a 18 month old child who cried the entire plane flight to Australia - so loud even earplugs didn't help much!
Choose you eternity is a GREAT line, and this is a wonderful cartoon. I often wonder about eternity . . .
Satan looks a bit stoned - almost wackyish - as he should be. :D
(http://www.offthemark.com/Images/sundays/sunday54.gif)
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Great news!
One of my bosses, Cate, who is a gene-jockey (a plant breeding scientist) just returned from a vacation to Austrailia, and I spoke to her this afternoon.
She told me there was a 18 month old child who cried the entire plane flight to Australia - so loud even earplugs didn't help much!
Choose you eternity is a GREAT line, and this is a wonderful cartoon. I often wonder about eternity . . .
Satan looks a bit stoned - almost wackyish - as he should be. :D
(http://www.offthemark.com/Images/sundays/sunday54.gif)
HEY! did you get his permission to use? :]
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HEY! did you get his permission to use? :]
You weren't copied on his PM? Mark is paying forum members $20 a post.
He says it's cheaper than freeway billboards, airport hand-outs, and worldwide spam.
(http://www.offthemarkcartoons.com/cartoons/2010-04-16.gif)
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And this week for May 17-22, 2010, Mark's Off the Mark strip is doing a new batch of his own Wacky Packages takes, so far this week he has shown "1 Musketteer" (spoofs 3 Musketteers candy), Fell-O (spoofs Jell-O) and Flite Beer (spoofs Lite beer)
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And this week for May 17-22, 2010, Mark's Off the Mark strip is doing a new batch of his own Wacky Packages takes, so far this week he has shown "1 Musketteer" (spoofs 3 Musketteers candy), Fell-O (spoofs Jell-O) and Flite Beer (spoofs Lite beer)
As I have commented to Mark on his "Off The Mark" Facebook page, I'm loving this week's theme.
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Mark, those are great! 1 Muskateer is a riot! Simple yet very effective!
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Hey, thanks, guys!
The 1 Musketeer gag was never submitted to Topps since they won't use M&M-Mars gags, but I liked the idea so much I decided to draw it for myself.
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I even liked the other entries in the recent May 2010 Off the Mark Wacky Packages week besides 1 MUSKETTER: DAVE SOAP and BLITZ CRACKERS.
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Great news!
One of my bosses, Cate, who is a gene-jockey (a plant breeding scientist) just returned from a vacation to Austrailia, and I spoke to her this afternoon.
She told me there was a 18 month old child who cried the entire plane flight to Australia - so loud even earplugs didn't help much!
Choose you eternity is a GREAT line, and this is a wonderful cartoon. I often wonder about eternity . . .
Satan looks a bit stoned - almost wackyish - as he should be. :D
(http://www.offthemark.com/Images/sundays/sunday54.gif)
This is a really great gag! I have to get on the Facebook list.
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"No Drafting!" LOL!! :D
Mark: Have to say I bought 6 sets of bio cards from Postcard Series 5 just to get your version of Wander Bread! Something about your work conveyed this perfect sense of wandering mischief in those slices of bread, and total exasperation on the part of the guy chasing them. Hilarious! One of my favorite Wackys.
P.S. If I had to pick one of those eternities, I'd go with the hot dogs. I'd probably never eat again, but it'd be better than the screaming babies!
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"No Drafting!" LOL!! :D
Mark: Have to say I bought 6 sets of bio cards from Postcard Series 5 just to get your version of Wander Bread! Something about your work conveyed this perfect sense of wandering mischief in those slices of bread, and total exasperation on the part of the guy chasing them. Hilarious! One of my favorite Wackys.
P.S. If I had to pick one of those eternities, I'd go with the hot dogs. I'd probably never eat again, but it'd be better than the screaming babies!
I love that title too because it is almost exactly the gag I came up with years ago. I had even discussed possibly having David Saunders sketch and paint this for me, I just never followed through.
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"No Drafting!" LOL!! :D
Mark: Have to say I bought 6 sets of bio cards from Postcard Series 5 just to get your version of Wander Bread! Something about your work conveyed this perfect sense of wandering mischief in those slices of bread, and total exasperation on the part of the guy chasing them. Hilarious! One of my favorite Wackys.
Wow, thanks, Ducko!
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Wow, thanks, Ducko!
Am I the only one that doesn't get the joke about 'no drafting'?
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Am I the only one that doesn't get the joke about 'no drafting'?
Nope, I did not get it either.
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Am I the only one that doesn't get the joke about 'no drafting'?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drafting_%28racing%29
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drafting_%28racing%29
I have heard of the term drafting in racing before but perhaps the old brain is not working today, how does it associate to Mark's drawing assuming that's what Ducko meant?
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I have heard of the term drafting in racing before but perhaps the old brain is not working today, how does it associate to Mark's drawing assuming that's what Ducko meant?
Because that's what he would be doing if they were going fast enough for it to make a difference.
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Because that's what he would be doing if they were going fast enough for it to make a difference.
Ahhhhhh, now I understand :D
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Mark's Off the Mark strip recently done this week for August 23-28, 2010 another Wacky Packages week! The best ones Mark did for this week are Riskies (August 23), Sticky Peanut Butter (August 24), Ghost It Note Pads (August 25), Thing Thongs (August 27), and NyKrill (August 28).
Mark in his e-mail said Cornea (August 26) didn't make the cut for me.
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While Mark Parisi's Off the Mark strip is planning another Wacky Packages week for November 2010, here's a recent funny Off the Mark Sunday strip though not Wacky Packages related but relates to a funny idea for credit cards and scanning with 4 strips instead of 1?
(http://s3.postimage.org/EKw_J.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/2apy1g7ic/)
Maybe for Wacky Packages ANS8 in 2011 there could be a Wacky Packages credit card take (maybe a spoof of the DISCOVER credit card calling it "DISCOVERED" credit card) with the 4 magnetic scan strips on the credit card??
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I have some accepted roughs from ANS7 to sell or trade. I also have some rejected roughs. Contact me if you might be interested.
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And here's a recent Off the Mark strip spoofing product placement - Even if it isn't Wacky Packages leaning...
(http://s1.postimage.org/2morjtzwk/Picture_952.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/2morjtzwk/)
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Did you like the latest Off the Mark November 29-December 4, 2010 Wacky Packages week? These ones are the best in my opinion:
1) What's in a bag spoofing a Mexican chain:
(http://s4.postimage.org/2i2gvx06c/Picture_972.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/2i2gvx06c/)
2) Christmas related:
(http://s4.postimage.org/2i2ni2e5g/Picture_973.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/2i2ni2e5g/)
3) Belated Halloween related:
(http://s1.postimage.org/ni1e5mys/Picture_974.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/ni1e5mys/)
(Does the vampire kid on the Wacky Pack resemble Eddie Munster?)
4) And finally:
(http://s1.postimage.org/ni6crog4/Picture_975.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/ni6crog4/)
(Does this Colonel Sanders parody on the Wacky Pack look like a cross between the Colonel and a cyclops, and has a smile in the style of MAD Magazine's Alfred E. Newman?)
The ones from the week that didn't make the cut for me were the Snickers spoof (Slickers) and the Kleenex spoof (Grossnex).
I hope Mark Parisi does a few more Off the Mark Wacky Packages week strips in 2011.
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Did you notice this March 17, 2011 Off the Mark strip with many breakfast cereal mascots?
(http://s4.postimage.org/2tcks1u1w/Picture_1000.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/2tcks1u1w/)
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My comic, "off the mark" has been added to gocomics.com
The reason I bring it up, is I want to draw attention to an image I included in my banner. It's a baby sticking Wacky Packages everywhere.
http://www.gocomics.com/offthemark
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My comic, "off the mark" has been added to gocomics.com
The reason I bring it up, is I want to draw attention to an image I included in my banner. It's a baby sticking Wacky Packages everywhere.
http://www.gocomics.com/offthemark
Ha! Love it! :great:
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My comic, "off the mark" has been added to gocomics.com
The reason I bring it up, is I want to draw attention to an image I included in my banner. It's a baby sticking Wacky Packages everywhere.
http://www.gocomics.com/offthemark
Excellent idea!
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My comic, "off the mark" has been added to gocomics.com
The reason I bring it up, is I want to draw attention to an image I included in my banner. It's a baby sticking Wacky Packages everywhere.
http://www.gocomics.com/offthemark
Glad to see Off the Mark moved from now gone Comics.com to gocomics.com - This is because Universal Uclick merged with United Feature Syndicate/United Media?
Can't wait for the next Wacky Packages weekthis Summer in Off the Mark...
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Have you noticed the July 7, 2011 Off the Mark strip with Mark Parisi's take (not Wacky Package like?) of a comic strip by Richard Thompson called "Cul De Sac" but calling it "Cult De Sac"?
(http://s1.postimage.org/1nb272mys/Picture.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/1nb272mys/)
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Have you noticed the July 7, 2011 Off the Mark strip with Mark Parisi's take (not Wacky Package like?) of a comic strip by Richard Thompson called "Cul De Sac" but calling it "Cult De Sac"?
(http://s1.postimage.org/1nb272mys/Picture.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/1nb272mys/)
I saw it, but I did not understand the inside joke.
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The Cul De Sac comic strip characters are in a religious cult or something like that.
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It was my contribution to Team Cul De Sac. The concept is that cartoonists parody the comic, Cul De Sac, by the amazing Richard Thompson. The cartoons will then be assembled into a book and auctioned off to raise money for Parkinson's. Thompson has Parkinson's.
I went with "Cult" De Sac. Alice is the cult leader on her famous manhole cover... Petey is sacrificing Danders. I think it helps the more you know about the strip.
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It was my contribution to Team Cul De Sac. The concept is that cartoonists parody the comic, Cul De Sac, by the amazing Richard Thompson. The cartoons will then be assembled into a book and auctioned off to raise money for Parkinson's. Thompson has Parkinson's.
I went with "Cult" De Sac. Alice is the cult leader on her famous manhole cover... Petey is sacrificing Danders. I think it helps the more you know about the strip.
What other cartoonists are planning or have planned to parody the Cul De Sac comic strip, Mark?
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What other cartoonists are planning or have planned to parody the Cul De Sac comic strip, Mark?
Lots and lots have done it. Some were done a individual pieces as opposed to being included in published strips. Bill Watterson even sent in a painting.
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It was my contribution to Team Cul De Sac. The concept is that cartoonists parody the comic, Cul De Sac, by the amazing Richard Thompson. The cartoons will then be assembled into a book and auctioned off to raise money for Parkinson's. Thompson has Parkinson's.
Oh crap, I didn't know that! I discovered Cul De Sac this spring and it's frickin' great! Man, I hope he can get treatment and keep working.
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Lots and lots have done it. Some were done a individual pieces as opposed to being included in published strips. Bill Watterson even sent in a painting.
Another strip I'll have to Google, since it's not in my daily newspaper. Awesome that Bill Watterson contributed!
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Just like Peanuts, Doonesbury, The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes and Dilbert defined their generations, I think Cul De Sac belongs right there with them.
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I know there's no new Off the Mark Wacky Packages Week yet, but notice this August 8, 2011 Off the Mark strip done by Mark Parisi featuring a couple of advertising icons getting the third degree or something like that over the Pillsbury Doughboy?
(http://s3.postimage.org/1ux89hah0/Picture_1162.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/1ux89hah0/)
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The August 15-20, 2011 Off the Mark strip had another Wacky Packages week, besides the unused for ANS8 drawing of Peepsi Cola seen in the main Wacky Packages ANS8 thread, the others in that week were Cheez-Itch (August 15), Bumble Beep (August 16 - Features an appearance of Wile E. Coyote on the Wacky Package), Tootsie Troll (August 18 - The troll reminded me of Miss Piggy from the Muppets), I Am dog food (August 19), and Cherios (August 20). All made the cut for me and on gocomics.com I added them to MY FAVORITE COMICS area.
I hope Mark does another Wacky Packages week in Off the Mark before 2011 is over.
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The August 15-20, 2011 Off the Mark strip had another Wacky Packages week, besides the unused for ANS8 drawing of Peepsi Cola seen in the main Wacky Packages ANS8 thread, the others in that week were Cheez-Itch (August 15), Bumble Beep (August 16 - Features an appearance of Wile E. Coyote on the Wacky Package), Tootsie Troll (August 18 - The troll reminded me of Miss Piggy from the Muppets), I Am dog food (August 19), and Cherios (August 20). All made the cut for me and on gocomics.com I added them to MY FAVORITE COMICS area.
I hope Mark does another Wacky Packages week in Off the Mark before 2011 is over.
Do you have any pics of these or links to them?
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(http://s4.postimage.org/1bvye1ig4/Picture_1187.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/1bvye1ig4/)
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(http://s4.postimage.org/1bvye1ig4/Picture_1187.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/1bvye1ig4/)
good job, thanks!
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I don't know if Mark plans another Off the Mark Wacky Packages Week before 2011 is over, but did you notice in the August 29, 2011 Off the Mark strip that if you like that Package Parodies take of the Beatles' Abbey Road 8 track tape album as "Eatles Flabby Road", here's Mark's take on the Beatles' Abbey Road with 4 cows and an Arby's...
(http://s4.postimage.org/1fu9xk3xg/Picture_1162.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/1fu9xk3xg/)
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I don't think there will be another Wacky Packages week until next year for Off the Mark, but in honor of Halloween, here's a funny Halloween Off The Mark cartoon from Halloween 2011 where the extra caffiene in candy could have leaned into a Wacky Package:
(http://s7.postimage.org/jkzm6h66f/Picture_1225.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/jkzm6h66f/)
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Remember the ANS1 Wacky Package take on the Grand Theft Auto video game called "Grand Theft Audio" (done by Tom Bunk), this November 22, 2011 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi features a dog playing a "Grand Theft Auto" spoof called "Grand Theft Dinner"!:
(http://s9.postimage.org/hdqyr2ke3/Picture_1254.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/hdqyr2ke3/)
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Guess what? Today's December 17, 2011 Off the Mark comic strip by Mark Parisi contains a Wacky Package Christmas related thing that doesn't spoof a real product (shade of original sticker series 11 "Decay Toothpaste"?):
(http://s7.postimage.org/i9429wlfb/001.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/i9429wlfb/)
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Here's a recent Christmas cartoon I did. I don't color the daily ones, someone at the syndicate adds the color. Look what they did with the package inside the stocking. They got the colors right! I wonder if it was a lucky guess.
http://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2011/12/21
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The January 24, 2012 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi has what might or might not be a Wacky Package take on the GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO book:
(http://s7.postimage.org/xe66v238n/002.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/xe66v238n/)
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The Feb. 11, 2012 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi features some kind of parody title of the CGI Dreamworks Puss in Boots movie that could be used for a second set of Wacky Packages Go To The Movies Blu-Ray disc stickers subset if one is agreed on for a planned in mid 2012 Wacky Packages ANS9:
(http://s13.postimage.org/pxzhbyunn/001.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/pxzhbyunn/)
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(http://www.offthemarkcartoons.com/cartoons/2010-04-16.gif)
Love the message - here is some Easter fun from off the mark!
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(http://www.offthemarkcartoons.com/cartoons/2010-04-16.gif)
Love the message - here is some Easter fun from off the mark!
(http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/z332/rbishop224/OffTheMarkEaster.png)
Nice Off the Mark Easter cartoons, this year's O.T.M. Easter cartoon on April 8, 2012 features an appearance by Sam-I-Am from Green Eggs and Ham taking the green eggs from the Easter Bunny!
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From the April 18, 2012 Off the Mark, not really a Wacky Package take on Angry Birds...
(http://s16.postimage.org/kvh3fo1f5/001.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/kvh3fo1f5/)
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I especially like the Tootsie Troll, Dying Eggs, Egg Hunt, Kringle and the Re-Stocking Fee. Great stuff. Signed up for the daily comic. :D
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Here's a recent Christmas cartoon I did. I don't color the daily ones, someone at the syndicate adds the color. Look what they did with the package inside the stocking. They got the colors right! I wonder if it was a lucky guess.
http://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2011/12/21
Dude,
The Other day my sixth grade twins came home with a language arts quiz with YOUR "Off the Mark" cartoons on them in which they had to decide, based on the cartoon, what word it depicted based on the definition....I think one was "imply"?? they didn't do so well...I told them that I would get the latest MP cartoons so we could get a jump on the teacher who obviously is a BIG FAN!! So now your cartoons are molding the minds of kids...very nice...i will post a picture of the quiz if i get a chance...maybe I could get my kids xtra-credit by getting you to meet their teacher... :] :] :]
PS "You've infultrated the school system" - how Wacky is that????
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I especially like the Tootsie Troll, Dying Eggs, Egg Hunt, Kringle and the Re-Stocking Fee. Great stuff. Signed up for the daily comic. :D
Thanks!
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Dude,
The Other day my sixth grade twins came home with a language arts quiz with YOUR "Off the Mark" cartoons on them in which they had to decide, based on the cartoon, what word it depicted based on the definition....I think one was "imply"?? they didn't do so well...I told them that I would get the latest MP cartoons so we could get a jump on the teacher who obviously is a BIG FAN!! So now your cartoons are molding the minds of kids...very nice...i will post a picture of the quiz if i get a chance...maybe I could get my kids xtra-credit by getting you to meet their teacher... :] :] :]
PS "You've infultrated the school system" - how Wacky is that????
I'd love to see the quiz. And I'd be happy to meet the your kids' teacher to get them extra credit... cute, young, female teacher, right?
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I'd love to see the quiz. And I'd be happy to meet the your kids' teacher to get them extra credit... cute, young, female teacher, right?
I heard she eats paste...LOL well, if you're into that sort of thing 8)
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So now your cartoons are molding the minds of kids...
Gurgle is molding the minds of children!
As it should be, with Pre-chewed MUSH
GRADE “A” SLOPPY
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Even though ANS9 won't be out for another 2 and a 1/2 months, this week's April 30-May 5, 2012 Off the Mark strips make up another Wacky Package week, here are the entries for that week below:
(http://s10.postimage.org/4s844zvgl/009.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/4s844zvgl/)
And, there may be another Off the Mark Wacky Packages week before 2012 is over.
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Even though ANS9 won't be out for another 2 and a 1/2 months, this week's April 30-May 5, 2012 Off the Mark strips make up another Wacky Package week, here are the entries for that week below:
(http://s10.postimage.org/4s844zvgl/009.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/4s844zvgl/)
And, there may be another Off the Mark Wacky Packages week before 2012 is over.
Those are great, really dig 5 hour enemy and oxe, but they are all exceptional and make me smile.
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Those are great, really dig 5 hour enemy and oxe, but they are all exceptional and make me smile.
Thanks. They were unaccepted concepts and it's good to have another avenue in which to use them.
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They were unaccepted concepts and it's good to have another avenue in which to use them.
Unaccepted by some but not ALL!
Sorry to be redundant, but 5 Hour Enemy is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time! All week I’ve been laughing at that gag, and it keeps on giving. I swear it deserves some type of trophy. In my book, this is one of those rare gems that doesn't come around often. I think someone at Topps was distracted and checking their phone when this concept passed over the editing table. OK, I’ve heaped enough burning coals upon your head.
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Thanks. They were unaccepted concepts and it's good to have another avenue in which to use them.
So are you saying you found a way to take a week off? HaHa :great:
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Taken from the May 10, 2012 Off the Mark strip: The opposite (not Wacky Package leaning or something like that) of Mr. Clean...
(http://s16.postimage.org/qphvz47dd/001.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/qphvz47dd/)
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Unaccepted by some but not ALL!
Sorry to be redundant, but 5 Hour Enemy is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time! All week I’ve been laughing at that gag, and it keeps on giving. I swear it deserves some type of trophy. In my book, this is one of those rare gems that doesn't come around often. I think someone at Topps was distracted and checking their phone when this concept passed over the editing table. OK, I’ve heaped enough burning coals upon your head.
Thanks! I'll take those coals any day!
I think they don't like when the package itself is alive. The original concept for 8 Up had a living can devouring the person but they asked me to change the gag so the can wasn't alive.
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So are you saying you found a way to take a week off? HaHa :great:
That's exactly right! When I get behind, those unused concepts bail out my ass.
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Thanks. They were unaccepted concepts and it's good to have another avenue in which to use them.
Wow, unaccepted concepts? Thanks for sharing them here they are accepted. I wonder what the actual reasoning is for each one being "unacceptable". I know it's not worth getting hung up on, but is may be entertaining to know.
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Have you noticed the July 7, 2011 Off the Mark strip with Mark Parisi's take (not Wacky Package like?) of a comic strip by Richard Thompson called "Cul De Sac" but calling it "Cult De Sac"?
(http://s1.postimage.org/1nb272mys/Picture.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/1nb272mys/)
And now, recently on May 27, 2012 there's an Off the Mark Sunday strip featuring a Cul De Sac character appearance at the BETTY RUBBLE CENTER:
(http://s15.postimage.org/rq2yx3v5z/007.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/rq2yx3v5z/)
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The May 31, 2012 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip features some gag that should have been a current Wacky Packages ANS entry spoofing the Tetris video game:
(http://s13.postimage.org/msbpnl803/001.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/msbpnl803/)
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If anyone is interested, Heritage is auctioning off a lot of original cartoon art. Cartoonists donated their work in honor or Richard Thomas (Cul de Sac cartoonist and Parkinson's sufferer) to raise money for the Michael J. Fox Foundation. It's for a good cause and it looks like some of it could go very affordably.
Here's mine:
http://comics.ha.com/common/search_results.php?Ntk=SI_Titles&Ntt=parisi&Nty=1&N=52+793+794+791+1893+792+2088+4294953918+1067&chkNotSold=0
Here are all of them:
http://comics.ha.com/common/search_results.php?N=52+793+794+791+1893+792+2088+4294953918
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I even notice every Father's Day (even this year despite Bil "Family Circus" Keane's death in November 2011) Mark forces his family to come up with ideas while Billy of the Family Circus still has a grudge or something like that.
Now if only Billy of the Family Circus got his own Wacky Package idea...
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From today's July 7, 2012 Off the Mark starip by Mark Parisi, though it isn't Wacky Packages related, something to take out water of grape drink mix...
(http://s9.postimage.org/y8hkldh2j/001.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/y8hkldh2j/)
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From today's July 23, 2012 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi, remember Wacky Packages ANS8's Green Eggs and Ham Wacky Package parody called "Grenades and Ham"? This should have been another "Green Eggs and Ham" Wacky Package take:
(http://s12.postimage.org/sbpjtdyuh/003.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/sbpjtdyuh/)
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The August 1, 2012 Off the Mark strip features a somewhat wacky take on 2% milk!:
(http://s15.postimage.org/tq2i7z10n/002.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/tq2i7z10n/)
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The August 1, 2012 Off the Mark strip features a somewhat wacky take on 2% milk!:
(http://s15.postimage.org/tq2i7z10n/002.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/tq2i7z10n/)
Actually this is a rerun of a 1993 Off the Mark cartoon from the annual rerun week.
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From the August 17, 2012 Off the Mark strip, something that should have been in the planned but cancelled Wacky Packages ANS4 Looney Logos subset:
(http://s13.postimage.org/62xyjtqjn/002.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/62xyjtqjn/)
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Not Wacky Related somewhat from the October 14, 2012 Off the Mark comic strip, but does it remind you of the 1960's-1970's years when gas pumps had at most gas station chains custom blended style systems (like Sunoco's Sun Dial Service and later Sunoco's Penny Pinching Pump?):
(http://s8.postimage.org/um1gyaoep/004.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/um1gyaoep/)
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Not Wacky Related somewhat from the October 14, 2012 Off the Mark comic strip, but does it remind you of the 1960's-1970's years when gas pumps had at most gas station chains custom blended style systems (like Sunoco's Sun Dial Service and later Sunoco's Penny Pinching Pump?):
(http://s8.postimage.org/um1gyaoep/004.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/um1gyaoep/)
I don't follow you? You get 3 choices at the pump now. No special blends unless you consider octane or corn. Well, there is diesel so that could be a blend....
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The October 15-20, 2012 Mark Parisi Off The Mark comic strip had Halloween leaning Wacky Packages drawings for the week, I posted 3 of them on the 2012 Wacky Halloween Postcards thread, one of them on the ANS9 thread, and now here are the other 2 for the week here. One spoofs Sunkist, the other spoofs a Hollister T-shirt (Mark told me in a e-mail that Hollister is a popular clothing line for teens):
(http://s18.postimage.org/cf8p205d1/003.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/cf8p205d1/)
I hope there's another Wacky Packages week in Off The Mark sometime in 2013 if not before 2012 is over.
And a final tidbit: The Howlester shirt that spoofs Hollister shirts could have been the 3rd. Wacky Packages T-shirt spoof joining 2 from the 1991 Wacky Packages series - Sick Tracy and Barf Wimpson.
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Here's an October 27, 2012 Halloween related Mark Parisi Off The Mark comic strip that should have been considered a Wacky Package entry in the ill fated 1991 revival:
(http://s7.postimage.org/4lgvbvxef/002.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/4lgvbvxef/)
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A November 3, 2012 Off The Mark strip by Mark Parisi - should this have been an idea for a Wacky Package ANS entry?:
(http://s17.postimage.org/7gdsdn0t7/003.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/7gdsdn0t7/)
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Mark Parisi's November 10, 2012 Off the Mark strip shows a not Wacky Package leaning book never written:
(http://s14.postimage.org/e6eozwvel/003.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/e6eozwvel/)
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The November 16, 2012 Mark Parisi Off The Mark strip uses a real product of Axe and not a Wacky Package version tied to this Thanksgiving related cartoon:
(http://s10.postimage.org/64bufmddh/002.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/64bufmddh/)
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Pics of cartoonists' work spaces including Schulz, Mauldin, Kirby, Aragones... and Parisi!
http://david-wasting-paper.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-little-cartoonist-eye-candy-for-new.html
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Pics of cartoonists' work spaces including Schulz, Mauldin, Kirby, Aragones... and Parisi!
http://david-wasting-paper.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-little-cartoonist-eye-candy-for-new.html
Cool article!
I wonder if the big rolling Craftsman tool boxes contain power saws and nail guns, or sets of color ink pens
And the cat peering through the window. Is her name Fancy Feet or Zit Kat?
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This January 19, 2013 Mark Parisi OFF THE MARK comic strip features a funny take on FUNYUNS in it:
(http://s8.postimage.org/5rcvj7acx/001.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/5rcvj7acx/)
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Remember the ANS2 Wacky Package take on Spongebob Squarepants called Soggybottom Wetpants? The March 4, 2013 Off the Mark strip has a Spongebob Squarepants parody of its own...
(http://s24.postimage.org/hmpbl1to1/004.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/hmpbl1to1/)
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Remember the ANS2 Wacky Package take on Spongebob Squarepants called Soggybottom Wetpants?
I had totally forgotten about that title and had to Google it
I think it’s funny when a fat chick wears skinny jeans. Especially when they are low cut at the waist and everyone can see their pencil holder
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Regarding this April 18, 2013 Mark Parisi Off the Mark comic strip which is not Wacky related but yet to see the first of at least 1 or 2 Wacky Packages weeks, do these Pez dispenser heads resemble heads that should have been in Garbage Pail Kids entries? (I bet Mark Parisi didn't do roughs for the Garbage Pail Kids Brand New Series 1 and 2 going on 3 or more):
(http://s13.postimg.org/5gsgfyheb/004.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/5gsgfyheb/)
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This week - April 29 - May 4, 2013 was another Off The Mark Wacky Packages week with these Wacky Packages entries done by Mark Parisi (He is working on Wacky Packages ANS11 entries and plans more Off The Mark Wacky Packages weeks in the months to come):
(http://s9.postimg.org/ecojc05zf/001.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/ecojc05zf/)
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This week - April 29 - May 4, 2013 was another Off The Mark Wacky Packages week with these Wacky Packages entries done by Mark Parisi (He is working on Wacky Packages ANS11 entries and plans more Off The Mark Wacky Packages weeks in the months to come):
(http://s9.postimg.org/ecojc05zf/001.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/ecojc05zf/)
LOVE Work-doh and Mr. Pepper! What's Topps thinking?
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I think South Pork should have made the ANS8 Wacky DVD's subset.
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Here's an Off The Mark comic strip from May 8, 2013 that you may think is a wacky take on the famous Skee-Ball arcade game or something like that:
(http://s9.postimg.org/yjwdcvoor/001.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/yjwdcvoor/)
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This Mark Parisi Off The Mark comic strip from June 1, 2013 is a wacky hybrid of a WINDMILL!:
(http://s23.postimg.org/8s8ozip5z/006.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/8s8ozip5z/)
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Something funny non Wacky Package related for the June 3, 2013 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi:
(http://s14.postimg.org/tnbvn3gj1/001.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/tnbvn3gj1/)
I wonder, can you make yourself into a Wacky Package even if it isn't TOPPS ARTISTS ON DEMAND (since Mark Parisi refused to take part in it anyway)?
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I wonder, can you make yourself into a Wacky Package even if it isn't TOPPS ARTISTS ON DEMAND (since Mark Parisi refused to take part in it anyway)?
Gurgle’s on strike?!
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Gurgle’s on strike?!
Sure hope not!
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Something funny non Wacky Package related for the June 3, 2013 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi:
(http://s14.postimg.org/tnbvn3gj1/001.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/tnbvn3gj1/)
I wonder, can you make yourself into a Wacky Package even if it isn't TOPPS ARTISTS ON DEMAND (since Mark Parisi refused to take part in it anyway)?
My curiosity is killing me...did Mark announce to people in public that he, in fact, refused to take
part in the sketches? Or is just mumbo-jumbo, again?
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Yes, Mark Parisi is not taking part in the July Artists on Demand Topps Wacky Packages project, that's his decision.
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The June 16, 2013 Off the Mark Sunday strip in honor of Father's Day with Mark Parisi's family giving him ideas (which Billy from the Family Circus despises) that Mark draws - One of them is a pun on the Off The Mark strip!
(http://s9.postimg.org/8ggyi0ql7/002.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/8ggyi0ql7/)
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I wonder, can you make yourself into a Wacky Package even if it isn't TOPPS ARTISTS ON DEMAND (since Mark Parisi refused to take part in it anyway)?
What? Please don't spread false rumors. I wasn't asked to participate in the Artist's On Demand thing, I did not refuse anything. You asked me and in email and I told you that. Please, no mumbo jumbo.
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Yes, Mark Parisi is not taking part in the July Artists on Demand Topps Wacky Packages project, that's his decision.
Stop it! Topps chose a few artists and I did not even know about it.
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LOVE Work-doh and Mr. Pepper! What's Topps thinking?
I thought those were shoe-ins and was quite disappointed when they were rejected.
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Hey Mark...Your daily calendar is a big hit at my work. I bought several at Christmas to give to friends at work and we get a kick out of it everyday.
Excellent work!
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What? Please don't spread false rumors. I wasn't asked to participate in the Artist's On Demand thing, I did not refuse anything. You asked me and in email and I told you that. Please, no mumbo jumbo.
Thanks, Mark. ;)
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I thought those were shoe-ins and was quite disappointed when they were rejected.
I bet if the Shoe had the final say, they'd have gotten in.
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I bet if the Shoe had the final say, they'd have gotten in.
Shoe always puts his best foot forward
Check out these soupy sneakers
(http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/z332/rbishop224/Shoes_zps954bf262.png)
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Check out these soupy sneakers
wow - those must be Warhol originals - just like that Campy magnet that was on ebay ;)
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A recent June 26, 2013 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi featured a wacky (not package) combination on zucchini and Kool-Aid (or lemonade or something like that):
(http://s10.postimg.org/5606dsupx/002.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/5606dsupx/)
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Remember Wacky Packages ANS2's Goodbye Kitty? Here in this July 15, 2013 Off the Mark strip is a funny Hello Kitty takeoff:
(http://s22.postimg.org/4tmk6mp4t/001.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/4tmk6mp4t/)
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The July 26, 2013 Mark Parisi Off The Mark strip features a wacky take on Hamburger Helper in it:
(http://s13.postimg.org/5vk91asur/003.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/5vk91asur/)
And though I was late with this, this July 21, 2013 Sunday Off The Mark strip mentions Mark Parisi's last name:
(http://s16.postimg.org/8fc491hup/004.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/8fc491hup/)
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(http://s16.postimg.org/8fc491hup/004.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/8fc491hup/)
LOL! Really clever!
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The July 29-August 3, 2013 episodes of Mark Parisi's Off the Mark was another Wacky Packages week. I posted the original concept of Might Be Dog from ANS10 in the ANS10 spoilers thread, now here are the other 5 Wacky Packages Parisi entries for that week (One is a book spoof, one is a video game spoof, and one is a spoof of a product which like Hostess was removed this past Fall but is about to return to store shelves before 2013 is over):
(http://s24.postimg.org/efqi8veup/001.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/efqi8veup/)
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Following last week's Mark Parisi's Off the Mark Wacky Packages week, this August 5, 2013 Off the Mark strip guest starring Charlie Brown and Lucy from Peanuts has a KICKSTARTER parody that should have made a Wacky web site spoof or an ANS Awful App:
(http://s11.postimg.org/nvrpba94v/001.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/nvrpba94v/)
Also, did you know Mark Parisi was recently spotlighted on an episode of a local WCVB ABC 5 Boston, MA. TV show called "Connect 5" in an episode regarding comics?
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Also, did you know Mark Parisi was recently spotlighted on an episode of a local WCVB ABC 5 Boston, MA. TV show called "Connect 5" in an episode regarding comics?
The show is called "Chronicle." (Connect 5??) I mentioned Wacky Packages at the end.
http://www.wcvb.com/chronicle/Superman-Turns-75/-/12523032/21278160/-/11phrfy/-/index.html
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Connect 5??
Pretty sneaky, Mark.
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The show is called "Chronicle." (Connect 5??) I mentioned Wacky Packages at the end.
http://www.wcvb.com/chronicle/Superman-Turns-75/-/12523032/21278160/-/11phrfy/-/index.html
Pretty cool! So you gave up art for tracing...LOL
I couldn't quite figure out what you were doing there. Are you copying them over for another project?
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Pretty cool! So you gave up art for tracing...LOL
I couldn't quite figure out what you were doing there. Are you copying them over for another project?
Thats not tracing, thats inking. Pencil sketch first, then ink over. ;)
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Thats not tracing, thats inking. Pencil sketch first, then ink over. ;)
Are you sure? From the video it looked like tracing. I could be completely wrong though. I love Marks humor and I'm just making a feeble attempt at being funny. :]
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Are you sure? From the video it looked like tracing. I could be completely wrong though. I love Marks humor and I'm just making a feeble attempt at being funny. :]
don't ever call an inker a tracer... :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epHCMiCtt3M
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Are you sure? From the video it looked like tracing. I could be completely wrong though. I love Marks humor and I'm just making a feeble attempt at being funny. :]
I'm inking over the pencil drawing, not tracing. And I must have had stage fright as I usually draw faster than that.
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The show is called "Chronicle." (Connect 5??) I mentioned Wacky Packages at the end.
http://www.wcvb.com/chronicle/Superman-Turns-75/-/12523032/21278160/-/11phrfy/-/index.html
Very cool, Mark. Thanks for posting! I'm glad I had the chance to see it. Next time, however, I say they move the Superman bit to the end and feature you at the beginning!
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Remember the ANS10 bonus sticker of the Wacky Package movie spoofing "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" as "The Woman With the Draggin' Tattoo"? Here by Mark Parisi could have been another T.G.W.T.D.T. spoof:
(http://s24.postimg.org/5ir0jp5g1/003.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/5ir0jp5g1/)
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this is actually a spoof of a masterpiece painting by Vermeer - Girl with Pearl Earring
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Johannes_Vermeer_%281632-1675%29_-_The_Girl_With_The_Pearl_Earring_%281665%29.jpg/168px-Johannes_Vermeer_%281632-1675%29_-_The_Girl_With_The_Pearl_Earring_%281665%29.jpg)
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this is actually a spoof of a masterpiece painting by Vermeer - Girl with Pearl Earring
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Johannes_Vermeer_%281632-1675%29_-_The_Girl_With_The_Pearl_Earring_%281665%29.jpg/168px-Johannes_Vermeer_%281632-1675%29_-_The_Girl_With_The_Pearl_Earring_%281665%29.jpg)
One of my favorite paintings. Stunning. So much captured in a single snapshot of time - painted by hand - roughly 350 years before digital cameras were everywhere. Interesting how it conveys more than countless digital photos on the net.
The quickie information on Vermeer on Wikipedia is worth a look imo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermeer - check out that self-portrait (part of a painting) - eerie how it looks like a photograph - amazing work.
Back to topic:
I check out Mark's comics almost every day - two recent favorites of mine:
http://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2013/10/02
http://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2013/10/03
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The November 7, 2013 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi features some kind of art spoof (but not Wacky Packages style):
(http://s21.postimg.org/y66zcxshf/001.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/y66zcxshf/)
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The November 7, 2013 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi features some kind of art spoof (but not Wacky Packages style):
(http://s21.postimg.org/y66zcxshf/001.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/y66zcxshf/)
spoof of Marcel Duchamp's 'Nude Descending a Staircase'. Wacky Packages Modern Masterpieces sub-set anyone?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c0/Duchamp_-_Nude_Descending_a_Staircase.jpg/144px-Duchamp_-_Nude_Descending_a_Staircase.jpg)
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spoof of Marcel Duchamp's 'Nude Descending a Staircase'. Wacky Packages Modern Masterpieces sub-set anyone?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c0/Duchamp_-_Nude_Descending_a_Staircase.jpg/144px-Duchamp_-_Nude_Descending_a_Staircase.jpg)
How do you even know this????
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How do you even know this????
He’s Fanatical
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How do you even know this????
Pretty famous work of art....it was even in a Disney movie once as the answer to a collegiate bowl game scene...the students
all stared at the painting afterwards to try to see the 'nude'
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He’s Fanatical
Smacks of the vanishing liberal arts education... You know, being all well-rounded and knowledgable about many worldly things. Freak.
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Pretty famous work of art....it was even in a Disney movie once as the answer to a collegiate bowl game scene...the students
all stared at the painting afterwards to try to see the 'nude'
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Makes me feel horribly inadequate. :'(
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Makes me feel horribly inadequate. :'(
Don't beat yourself up. I had no idea what it was either. :great:
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How do you even know this????
Funny, I knew the art as well, although I couldn't remember the artist's name. I took a fine arts class as one of my required non-technical electives in college. My boss has the same Art History book - maybe it's an engineering school thing?
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Though not Wacky Package related, the November 23, 2013 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi featured a funny hybrid of turkey and yogurt that I wish had a Wacky Package take for a Dannon product:
(http://s15.postimg.org/msh8fsogn/001.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/msh8fsogn/)
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Not to derail the thread, but there is another Mark Parisi that has been in the news recently.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/06/mark-parisi_n_4223070.html
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Not to derail the thread, but there is another Mark Parisi that has been in the news recently.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/06/mark-parisi_n_4223070.html
That's funny!
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That guy is a nut. <---- singular
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That guy is a nut. <---- singular
But he always has a ball!
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But he always has a ball!
rim shot!
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rim shot!
It takes a lot of cajone for someone to do that.
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You are so friggin' on the mark! Love your gags love your art!
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Mark, can you make a list of which wackys you create, draw, gag or have some input? Thanks
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Here's a recent December 8, 2013 Mark Parisi Off The Mark Sunday that isn't Wacky Packages related but is Christmas related - Characters from the Peanuts comic strip running away from a NUTCRACKER! (Why is that?):
(http://s27.postimg.org/axr6sedvj/001.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/axr6sedvj/)
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Characters from the Peanuts comic strip running away from a NUTCRACKER! (Why is that?):
cuz they are Peanuts and he's a Nutcracker ready to crack nuts
plus he's creepy scary like a clown....
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That is my favorite type of comic --- Funny and scary at the same time and all without the use of words. Beautifully done Mark.
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Here's a recent December 8, 2013 Mark Parisi Off The Mark Sunday that isn't Wacky Packages related but is Christmas related - Characters from the Peanuts comic strip running away from a NUTCRACKER! (Why is that?):
(http://s27.postimg.org/axr6sedvj/001.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/axr6sedvj/)
Coincidentally, the very moment I opened this and was looking at the comic, the Planters Peanuts commercial came on where Mr Peanut is being hounded by a deranged nutcracker.
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The Decmeber 14, 2013 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip is not Wacky Pack related but Christmas related tells the difference between a candy cane (THEN) and...a CANDY RASCAL scooter??? (NOW):
(http://s8.postimg.org/j6th1qe81/001.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/j6th1qe81/)
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Couldn’t help but to notice the Cafepress image at the bottom of Jay’s auction page. Don't think I've ever seen this one...
(http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/z332/rbishop224/Gurgle_zpsea07f2bf.png)
http://www.cafepress.com/mf/27140787/wacky-packages-auctions_tshirt?utm_content=ChannelAdvisor_US_shopping&utm_medium=display&utm_source=CSE&CA_6C15C=1302020297&productId=250380191
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Couldn’t help but to notice the Cafepress image at the bottom of Jay’s auction page. Don't think I've ever seen this one...
(http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/z332/rbishop224/Gurgle_zpsea07f2bf.png)
http://www.cafepress.com/mf/27140787/wacky-packages-auctions_tshirt?utm_content=ChannelAdvisor_US_shopping&utm_medium=display&utm_source=CSE&CA_6C15C=1302020297&productId=250380191
Thats a great cartoon but, gulp! $34.50 for a T-shirt?!?!? There is a "flash deal" that pops up currently for a $50 gift voucher for $25, however.
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Thats a great cartoon but, gulp! $34.50 for a T-shirt?!?!? There is a "flash deal" that pops up currently for a $50 gift voucher for $25, however.
I agree Scot. I would probably order 1 if it were half the price.
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Couldn’t help but to notice the Cafepress image at the bottom of Jay’s auction page. Don't think I've ever seen this one...
(http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/z332/rbishop224/Gurgle_zpsea07f2bf.png)
http://www.cafepress.com/mf/27140787/wacky-packages-auctions_tshirt?utm_content=ChannelAdvisor_US_shopping&utm_medium=display&utm_source=CSE&CA_6C15C=1302020297&productId=250380191
I kind of feel the way the wife in the cartoon feels after I looked at my tracking sheet for 2013 wacky purchases. And that is all for NEW Wackys unfortunately. I wonder if I can get 25 cents to the dollar for all that Ive spent!!! It was fun though....
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(http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/z332/rbishop224/Gurgle_zpsea07f2bf.png)
I got a Cafepress post on FB yesterday....the white t-shirt version is marked down to 21.99 and 15% off today, for a plain white T baseball style $35 black is $29
http://www.cafepress.com/mf/27140787/wacky-packages-auctions_tshirt?utm_content=ChannelAdvisor_US_shopping&utm_medium=display&utm_source=CSE&CA_6C15C=1908683020&productId=250380196
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I kind of feel the way the wife in the cartoon feels after I looked at my tracking sheet for 2013 wacky purchases. And that is all for NEW Wackys unfortunately. I wonder if I can get 25 cents to the dollar for all that Ive spent!!! It was fun though....
High quality sketches averaged in may get you to this total, otherwise i would say 5 cents on the dollar.
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High quality sketches averaged in may get you to this total, otherwise i would say 5 cents on the dollar.
The plates I got in the ANS10 hobby boxes sold for goodly prices so I think I could get 25c after all is said and done. A
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Did anyone see today's March 22, 2014 Off The Mark strip even though it wasn't an all Wacky Packages week, this one might have been planned for one but didn't make the cut until today...
(http://s27.postimg.org/o6cb0ig6n/Wacky_Packages_Off_The_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/o6cb0ig6n/)
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I've gotten a lot of mileage out of this at parties!
Not to derail the thread, but there is another Mark Parisi that has been in the news recently.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/06/mark-parisi_n_4223070.html
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Thanks! And thanks for all the great comments on this thread. I haven't been here in a while and much appreciated.
You are so friggin' on the mark! Love your gags love your art!
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Did anyone see today's March 22, 2014 Off The Mark strip even though it wasn't an all Wacky Packages week, this one might have been planned for one but didn't make the cut until today...
(http://s27.postimg.org/o6cb0ig6n/Wacky_Packages_Off_The_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/o6cb0ig6n/)
Update: Mark told me the reason for this is that he is not planning any more Off The Mark Wacky Packages weeks and may spread Wacky Packages works by him off and on, like he did for the March 22, 2014 Off The Mark strip.
Rumor has it Mark may even use a Wacky Packages work by him in a Sunday Off The Mark strip in the future.
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Mark, can you make a list of which wackys you create, draw, gag or have some input? Thanks
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OK, here's the list so far. These are gag concepts only, I did not do the paintings.
ANS7
Bite A Man
Crispux
Fraid
Grape Newts
Head & Smolders
Hide
Hunks
Iris Stings
Mouse Mix
Mrs. Blabbermouth
Octivia
Ogre Eaters
Pinkies
Raven Bran
Ruffled
Simian Toes Crunch
Smuggler's
Snoresages
Spread Bull
Stealthy Choice
Vampire Marshmallows
ANS8
Frite Loops
Hawaiian Pants
Mr. Picasso Head
Dr. Pester
Franken Bury
Skittish Fish
Eelios
Grenades and Ham
8 up
CanThat's Dry
Chapstink
Hop Pockets
Pop Aparts
Rainy D
Punkin' Donuts
Showerade
Tripicana
Ghoulfish
Jawson's Rabies
Tutino's Pizza Wraps
Trivial Lawsuit
Cream Of Tweet
Crooker Jack
Milk Dudes
Buzzerfinger
Call of Doody
Almond Jerk
Troll House
Livid Plumr
Silly Bangz
Squinties
Buff
Puu Puu Pets
Coca Collar
Chef Boy UR Dum
Con Flakes
Jupiter Mints
Like Cereal
Sewer Patch Kids
Twilice
Transfarmers
deLays
Avatart*
Ironed Man*
*painted, not used
ANS 9
M & eMpty
Combovers
Dr Shell's
Nutter Blubber
Oscar Tyre
Asparagus Jacks
Letgo
Alpha-Bats
Brambles
Tridon't
Yuck
Klix
Bull Parts
EZ Pudge
Pureel
Juicy Dropped Pop
Cheez Wuz
Lumpables
Super Mario Mothers
Shock Band
Hello
Mass Defect
Litter Bug Planet
Flushbook
Words With Fiends
TP Guide
(Helped add a line to Doo Doo Jump
and Obey)
ANS 10
Flustered Flakes
Newts and Adders
Mtn. Doom
Taco Belch
Chia Pest
Newtella
5-Hour Anarchy
Benadrool
Pull Pop
Milk Deads
Chux Mix
Lucky Germs
Girl With The Draggin' Tattoo
Edge of Gory
Lice-O-Matic
YowTube
MySpaced
Ya-Who?
ANS11
Fruit of the Moon
Pimply Orange
Moany-Wheats
Gas Who?
Bit Pens
Hamburger Hurter
Benjamin Morgue
Pudgsicle
Frictionary
Sunkurst
Coalgate
Snarkers
The Fruitcake Factory
Outbreak Steakhouse
Five Guts
Burger Kringe
OLD SCHOOL
Cling Freek
Clorocks 2
$0.00001
Bang
Mr. Babble
Tiger Eat
Brains-burgers
Count Chalkula
Wedgie!
Swine Bros.
Bash
Knerrd
Hagnut
(Helped with Cranky Foam)
POSTCARDS
Klepto Bismol
Taco Bill
Wander Bread
Peepers
Maulboro
H8 (w/ Mike Dantzer)
Mr. Ghoulbar
Cap'n Clunk
Gnutella
Greasin' Formula
Coagulate
Fig Newts
Baby Wrath
Necko
Hersheep
Butcherfingers
It Kat
Whatchamakillit
Ocean Prey
POSTERS
Panthers
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A big surprise for April Fools Day 2014! Remember the April 1, 1997 comic strip switcherooie? For April 1, 2014. Mark Parisi and Dan Thompson switched strips.
Mark Parisi did Dan Thompson's "Rip Haywire":
(http://s14.postimg.org/4tvko8oct/Rip_Haywire_April_Fools.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/4tvko8oct/)
And Dan Thompson (also works on "Brevity" and "Kidspot" seen on gocomics.com) did Mark's "Off The Mark" doing it "Family Circus" spoof style:
(http://s7.postimg.org/x45i2j70n/Off_the_Mark_April_Fools.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/x45i2j70n/)
Now if only Dan Thompson could start doing some possible Wacky Packages ANS and OLDS rough drawings and/or actual paintings...
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Kudos to Mark Parisi on his recent 2014 nomination for the NCS awards best newspaper panel cartoon and greeting cards!
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The April 5, 2014 Off The Mark strip featured another Wacky Packages take by Mark spoofing Fiber One bars:
(http://s3.postimg.org/lnuh9avov/Off_the_Mark_April_5_2014.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/lnuh9avov/)
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Speaking of Off the Mark in title or name of artist and not Wacky Package related whatsoever: Can you see the word MARK mentioned in the word balloon of this April 7, 2014 Mark Parisi Off The Mark comic strip:
(http://s29.postimg.org/agfxm7hwj/Off_the_Mark_April_7_2014.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/agfxm7hwj/)
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A Wacky Packages Off the Mark entry by Mark himself for June 28, 2014! A spoof of Charleston Chew:
(http://s27.postimg.org/qs40z9ca7/Off_the_Mark_June_28_2014.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/qs40z9ca7/)
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For this July 15, 2014 Off the Mark strip, it's not Wacky Package related but parody singer name related...
(http://s23.postimg.org/6ll8gd87b/Off_the_Mark_July_15_2014.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/6ll8gd87b/)
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A September 27, 2014 Off the Mark Wacky Packages strip by Mark Parisi himself:
(http://s24.postimg.org/q0hwjocsx/Off_the_Mark_September_27_2014.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/q0hwjocsx/)
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In time for Halloween 2014, an October 18, 2014 Off the Mark Wacky Packages entry done by Mark Parisi himself...
(http://s15.postimg.org/cv8p3r9av/Off_the_Mark_October_18_2014.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/cv8p3r9av/)
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In time for Halloween 2014, an October 18, 2014 Off the Mark Wacky Packages entry done by Mark Parisi himself...
(http://s15.postimg.org/cv8p3r9av/Off_the_Mark_October_18_2014.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/cv8p3r9av/)
Now that should be in the next OS set..
A
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Alex, we had a Goreo in ANS 11. I must have submitted the idea just before Mark. Originally my gag was based on Double Stuffed Oreo's and was called Brain Stuffed Goreos. An interesting bit of trivia about the final painting is that someone at Topps thought it would be funny if the Zombie looked like Al Gore ('Gore'o get it!). And that how the painting was done.
(http://s29.postimg.org/55y7leqtf/image.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/55y7leqtf/)
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Not Wacky Packages related, but the November 3, 2014 Off the Mark strip features a Wacky name take on Charlie Brown from Peanuts...
(http://s30.postimg.org/s7uz8bkfh/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/s7uz8bkfh/)
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Alex, we had a Goreo in ANS 11. I must have submitted the idea just before Mark. Originally my gag was based on Double Stuffed Oreo's and was called Brain Stuffed Goreos. An interesting bit of trivia about the final painting is that someone at Topps thought it would be funny if the Zombie looked like Al Gore ('Gore'o get it!). And that how the painting was done.
(http://s29.postimg.org/55y7leqtf/image.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/55y7leqtf/)
I never noticed that!!! Al Gore!!! bahahahahaha - :]
Alex
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A special Christmas treat: This December 25, 2014 Off The Mark strip by Mark Parisi features a kid Godzilla getting for Christmas a what should have been in the 2014 Wacky Packages series a third ever since ANS1 parody of My Little Pony to join My Little Phony and My Little Bony:
(http://s29.postimg.org/7g35778b7/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/7g35778b7/)
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Not Wacky related for this January 8, 2015 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip, but I don't get this, does anyone?:
(http://s12.postimg.org/6dox54l9l/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/6dox54l9l/)
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Not Wacky related for this January 8, 2015 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip, but I don't get this, does anyone?:
(http://s12.postimg.org/6dox54l9l/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/6dox54l9l/)
These are the Chinese Yin and Yang symbols. Wikipedia describes it better than I can as follows: "...apparently opposite or contrary forces are actually complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another. Many tangible dualities (such as light and dark, fire and water, and male and female) are thought of as physical manifestations of the duality of yin and yang". Here is the image I most often see associated with Yin and Yang...
(http://s9.postimg.org/ssdl5dgy3/Yin_yang.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/ssdl5dgy3/)
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Mark's comic panels have been showing up in my Facebook newsfeed!
My friends and even cousins on Canada are discovering his work and posting them!
A
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These are the Chinese Yin and Yang symbols. Wikipedia describes it better than I can as follows: "...apparently opposite or contrary forces are actually complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another. Many tangible dualities (such as light and dark, fire and water, and male and female) are thought of as physical manifestations of the duality of yin and yang". Here is the image I most often see associated with Yin and Yang...
(http://s9.postimg.org/ssdl5dgy3/Yin_yang.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/ssdl5dgy3/)
Thanx for the info.
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The February 7, 2015 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip featured a Wacky Package spoof of Frontline Plus called Ruffline.
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The February 7, 2015 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip featured a Wacky Package spoof of Frontline Plus called Ruffline.
You mean "Runtline Puny", maybe?
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You mean "Runtline Puny", maybe?
Yes.
By the way, here is the image...
(http://s7.postimg.org/3vs1il4uf/Off_the_Mark_Wacky_Package_Runtline_Puny.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/3vs1il4uf/)
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Also: I know Mark Parisi is all right despite the Boston/New England area getting a lot of record breaking snow with non stop snowstorms the last few weeks, but that won't stop on his work of possible entries for a planned 2015 Wacky Packages series (tentatively set for Summer 2015).
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The Feb. 28, 2015 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip features a Wacky Package take on a Cabbage Patch Kids doll (But it wouldn't make the 2015 Wacky Packages series CRAZY COLLECTIBLES subset, just like a rejected for the 1985 series Cabbage Patch Kids doll Wacky Packages entry called Garbage Pail Kids did and caused the inspiration for the Topps Garbage Pail Kids sticker series):
(http://s16.postimg.org/9xvhlkjm9/Off_the_Mark_Wacky_Package_Crabbage_Patch_Kids.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/9xvhlkjm9/)
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That's exactly right. Your Goreo was submitted just before mine for the same series. I thought I had a ringer but I was beaten to the punch.
Alex, we had a Goreo in ANS 11. I must have submitted the idea just before Mark. Originally my gag was based on Double Stuffed Oreo's and was called Brain Stuffed Goreos. An interesting bit of trivia about the final painting is that someone at Topps thought it would be funny if the Zombie looked like Al Gore ('Gore'o get it!). And that how the painting was done.
(http://s29.postimg.org/55y7leqtf/image.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/55y7leqtf/)
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In honor of St. Patrick's Day 2015, today's March 17, 2015 Mark Parisi Off The Mark strip features what might be the original rough for what would be the Wacky Packages All New Series 11 Lucky Charms spoof called "Licky Charms", but a different design concept or something like that:
(http://s13.postimg.org/9nrlv8qs3/Wacky_Packages_Licky_Charms_Off_The_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/9nrlv8qs3/)
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I know today's Off the Mark isn't Wacky Package related, but for a THROWBACK THURSDAY is a lost Mark Parisi done Off The Mark strip originally done in 1987 that I think never ran since the Off The Mark strip was launched in January 1987 (originally a weekly, then I think 7 days a week by the early 1990's)! I wonder if there will be more unearthed lost Off The Mark strips in the future (Though not reruns of past Off The Mark strips):
(http://s15.postimg.org/6i3vinsl3/Off_the_Mark_Throwback_Thursday_lost_episode_fro.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/6i3vinsl3/)
(Now if only Mark can show a rejected 1970's style Wacky Packages Old School rough if he ever does at least one of these!)
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Here's another good (non Wacky Package related) Mark Parisi Off The Mark THROWBACK THURSDAY 1987 episode rerun on May 14, 2015:
(http://s8.postimg.org/u4ygh06ep/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/u4ygh06ep/)
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For today's May 15, 2015 Off the Mark strip, though not Wacky Package related - what do you mean with doing with a name that's not even related to JENNY CRAIG nor JENNIFER LOPEZ?:
(http://s16.postimg.org/adc527t0x/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/adc527t0x/)
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I totally went there! I totally did with a name that's not even related to Jenny Craig nor Jennifer Lopez!
For today's May 15, 2015 Off the Mark strip, though not Wacky Package related - what do you mean with doing with a name that's not even related to JENNY CRAIG nor JENNIFER LOPEZ?:
(http://s16.postimg.org/adc527t0x/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/adc527t0x/)
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A funny non Wacky related THROWBACK THURSDAY lost 1987 Mark Parisi Off The Mark cartoon from June 11, 2015 - To me I think that baseball player with a smiling face bat could be perfect for a future Wacky Packages entry spoofing Topps baseball cards:
(http://s27.postimg.org/4w4v3e51r/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/4w4v3e51r/)
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Another good non Wacky Pack related Mark Parisi Off the Mark Throwback Thursday 1987 cartoon from June 18, 2015:
(http://s30.postimg.org/yofpc5v5p/001.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/yofpc5v5p/)
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In this June 21, 2015 Mark Parisi Off The Mark annual Mark Parisi's family Father's Day idea strip (Which Billy of the Family Circus still despises), notice a funny name for Dr. Pepper by Mark's daughter Jen that could have been a Wacky Package name in opposite name form or something like that?:
(http://s21.postimg.org/tpf8e4c9f/001.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/tpf8e4c9f/)
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Another non Wacky Pack related THROWBACK THURSDAY 1987 Off the Mark strip done by Mark Parisi from June 25, 2015:
(http://s30.postimg.org/6l7igotnh/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/6l7igotnh/)
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Anyone remember the Wacky Packages take on Silly String called "Silly Thing" in Wacky Packages ANS11 back in 2013? This July 1, 2015 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi shows another good Wacky Package name for Silly String in it:
(http://s15.postimg.org/oc2evgzqv/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/oc2evgzqv/)
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Here's another non Wacky Pack related THROWBACK THURSDAY lost 1987 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip from July 2, 2015. I wish that bar of soap wearing glasses would be perfect for a future Wacky Packages (2016?) entry, like maybe another Wacky Packages take on Ivory soap calling it "I SEE" soap?:
(http://s16.postimg.org/52svyhle9/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/52svyhle9/)
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Another non Wacky Pack related Mark Parisi Off the Mark THROWBACK THURSDAY lost 1987 strip from July 16, 2015 this time featuring a cartoon with some bottom caption that is also a 1964 party song of the same name:
(http://s8.postimg.org/capg7xz35/Off_the_Mark_Throwback_Thursday.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/capg7xz35/)
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Here's another non Wacky Pack related Throwback Thursday Off The Mark by Mark Parisi lost 1987 strip from August 13, 2015 this time with skunks in it:
(http://s16.postimg.org/xhqw6swg1/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/xhqw6swg1/)
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An August 20, 2015 non Wacky related Off The Mark Throwback Thursday lost 1987 cartoon with a funny sign related joke!:
(http://s4.postimg.org/b3lt22bll/Off_The_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/b3lt22bll/)
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Non Wacky Pack related Off The Mark Throwback Thursday 1987 strip on August 27, 2015. This ties into former Let's Make a Deal host Monty Hall who turned 94 recently?
(http://s4.postimg.org/o26wtqmmx/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/o26wtqmmx/)
By the way, the current Let's Make a Deal hosted by Wayne Brady airs daily on CBS daytime and has been airing since 2009. And recently a digital subchannel network of classic game shows called BUZZR (I get it where I live on WPWR 50.4 plus on Comcast Digital Cable) now carries reruns of Monty Hall's 1970's Let's Make a Deal almost every day.
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Here's a non Wacky related Mark Parisi drawn Off The Mark lost 1987 cartoon from September 24, 2015:
(http://s14.postimg.org/f89dcru6l/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/f89dcru6l/)
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For the first time in several months, we have a Mark Parisi Wacky Package Off The Mark strip - For October 3, 2015! - a spoof of Right Guard:
(http://s15.postimg.org/otmtbg7g7/Off_the_Mark_Wacky_Package.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/otmtbg7g7/)
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For the October 10, 2015 Mark Parisi Off The Mark strip, we have another Halloween related Wacky Package entry...
(http://s28.postimg.org/4hvo509c9/Off_The_Mark_Wacky_Package.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/4hvo509c9/)
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If anyone wants to check out all of Mark Parisi's Off The Mark strips in better quality, just click the link below!
http://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2015/10/03
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Non-Wacky Package related, but today's October 15, 2015 Mark Parisi Off The Mark strip is another Throwback Thursday strip from 1987 that's monster/Halloween related, and also has the "poke your eye out" line that may or may have not been influenced by the "poke your eye out" line in the 1983 holiday movie "A Christmas Story":
(http://s14.postimg.org/et0tadjfh/of151015.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/et0tadjfh/)
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Another Halloween related Wacky Package done by Mark Parisi in the October 24, 2015 Off the Mark strip - with 1 week to go until Halloween, of course!:
(http://s13.postimg.org/p54hgir77/Off_the_Mark_Wacky_Package.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/p54hgir77/)
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That could have been a great Wacky Halloween Postcard :'(
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2 days before Halloween 2015, the October 29, 2015 Off The Mark strip has another Mark Parisi done Halloween Wacky Package...
(http://s21.postimg.org/xa7e4r9f7/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/xa7e4r9f7/)
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Mark needs to make a card or sticker set of these. He has enough of these made by now!
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Mark needs to make a card or sticker set of these. He has enough of these made by now!
That would be cool if Mark put something like that together to sell on the forum. I know most of the hardcore Wacky collectors would probably nab a set. Call it something punny like "Mad MARKet"; "MARKed Down"; or "At the MARKet".
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That would be cool if Mark put something like that together to sell on the forum. I know most of the hardcore Wacky collectors would probably nab a set. Call it something punny like "Mad MARKet"; "MARKed Down"; or "At the MARKet".
Love it! BTW - you have the creepiest avatar!!
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Not Wacky Package related, but here's a November 11, 2015 Off The Mark strip with a cat watching a Game of Thrones spoof that would have been a good Wacky Package title for a Game of Thrones season DVD set:
(http://s21.postimg.org/iofwwsvlf/Off_The_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/iofwwsvlf/)
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A non Wacky Package Off The Mark strip by Mark Parisi Throwback Thursday 1987 flashback from November 12, 2015:
(http://s28.postimg.org/d0l0honzd/Off_The_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/d0l0honzd/)
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A non Wacky Package Off The Mark strip by Mark Parisi Throwback Thursday 1987 flashback from November 12, 2015:
(http://s28.postimg.org/d0l0honzd/Off_The_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/d0l0honzd/)
That one is a true LOL!
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For those who get the JUMBLE puzzle in their local newspaper: Today's Jumble features a Jumble puzzle done by Mark "Off The Mark" Parisi as part of the 3rd. annual GUEST JUMBLER WEEK.
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A pre Thanksgiving November 23, 2015 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi featuring a Wacky Package leaning opposite name for Stove Top stuffing that is part of a MARKETING FAILURE:
(http://s4.postimg.org/6x4eusmqx/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/6x4eusmqx/)
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A pre Thanksgiving November 23, 2015 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi featuring a Wacky Package leaning opposite name for Stove Top stuffing that is part of a MARKETING FAILURE:
(http://s4.postimg.org/6x4eusmqx/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/6x4eusmqx/)
Ba ha ha!!!! A
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Thanks for the vote of confidence. I've thought about doing something like this. I'd call it Off the Mark-et. I just wasn't sure there would be enough interest to make it worth it.
That would be cool if Mark put something like that together to sell on the forum. I know most of the hardcore Wacky collectors would probably nab a set. Call it something punny like "Mad MARKet"; "MARKed Down"; or "At the MARKet".
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A Wacky Package Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi from January 30, 2016:
(http://s12.postimg.org/cb1py6gyh/Off_the_Mark_Wacky_Package.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/cb1py6gyh/)
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A Wacky Package Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi from January 30, 2016:
(http://s12.postimg.org/cb1py6gyh/Off_the_Mark_Wacky_Package.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/cb1py6gyh/)
very nice.
that really should be in a topps set
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Nice job Mark!
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Did the Feb. 7, 2016 Sunday comics in your newspaper where you live that carried the Pearls Before Swine Sunday comic strip run by mistake or something like that the Feb. 7, 2016 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip in its place?
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The paper in Southeastern Virginia had Pears before Swine.
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The paper in Southeastern Virginia had Pears before Swine.
PEARS BEFORE SWINE? Hey, that's a good title for one of the entries of a Wacky Package subset spoofing newspaper comic strips and webcomic strips - mostly for backs of Wacky Packages ANS series stickers (Hoping the next regular one comes out 2016-2017).
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My paper always has Pearls Before. I sometimes wish they'd swap Off the Mark for that, but then I probably wouldn't enjoy the OTM desk calendars so much :-\
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The March 5, 2016 Off The Mark strip by Mark Parisi is another Wacky Packages drawing:
(http://s29.postimg.org/5ur960icj/Off_The_Mark_March_5_2016.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/5ur960icj/)
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Another non Wacky related but lost 1987 cartoon Off The Mark strip from March 11, 2016:
(http://s7.postimg.org/fi20k10nr/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/fi20k10nr/)
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Thats hilarious lol.
Partly because several years ago I had the worst case of that in our county. Once i was cured the county department of disease control called me at work very interested in knowing where i had eaten to contract such a horrid case.
That was 5 days of hell for sure.
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Can we get a card set of Mark's parodies?
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Thats hilarious lol.
Partly because several years ago I had the worst case of that in our county. Once i was cured the county department of disease control called me at work very interested in knowing where i had eaten to contract such a horrid case.
That was 5 days of hell for sure.
Well, where did you eat, and what?
Jim
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Can we get a card set of Mark's parodies?
I second the motion!
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Can we get a card set of Mark's parodies?
I'd definitely be in for that!
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A March 24, 2016 Off The Mark Throwback Thursday lost 1987 cartoon (non Wacky related as always) as done by Mark Parisi:
(http://s14.postimg.org/ngwedmni5/Off_The_Mark.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/ngwedmni5/)
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Another Wacky Package Off The Mark strip done by Mark Parisi from April 2, 2016:
(http://s30.postimg.org/z1oz6f48d/Off_The_Mark_Wacky_Package.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/z1oz6f48d/)
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Ahh, Bumble Beast would make a great real wacky.
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Ahh, Bumble Beast would make a great real wacky.
But there are no plans yet for a green light to make a Wacky Packages 2016-2017 series.
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The April 21, 2016 Off The Mark comic strip featured another Throwback Thursday non Wacky Package related cartoon done by Mark:
(http://s31.postimg.org/3omhqkfiv/Off_the_Mark_Throwback_Thursday.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/3omhqkfiv/)
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A June 4, 2016 Wacky Package Off The Mark cartoon done by Mark Parisi himself:
(http://s33.postimg.org/ldnpc8ibf/Off_The_Mark_Wacky_Package.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/ldnpc8ibf/)
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On Father's Day (June 19, 2016), Mark Parisi didn't do a Father's Day Off the Mark strip with his family's ideas (and an appearance by Billy of the Family Circus) like in the last couple of years. Even Mark pulled from gocomics.com and some papers recently a June 17, 2016 Off the Mark strip due to the event of an alligator/boy incident at Walt Disney World in Florida.
Well, You will still see occassionally Wacky Package drawings in the Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip, like this recent one from June 25, 2016:
(https://s31.postimg.org/rsvpra107/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/rsvpra107/)
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Remember the Silly Putty spoof Killy Putty in Wacky Packages original sticker series #9? The July 30, 2016 Mark Parisi Off The Mark strip shows a current day Silly Putty Wacky Package take:
(https://s31.postimg.org/cme8jfrtz/Off_The_Mark_Wacky_Packages.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/cme8jfrtz/)
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An August 27, 2016 Off The Mark strip by Mark Parisi of a Wacky Packages take on Jelly Belly:
(https://s3.postimg.org/wpg3uge0f/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/wpg3uge0f/)
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Like most of us, I run into Mark's artwork all over the internet.
This one, I saw tonight on a Psychology forum, takes the cake.
(http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/z332/rbishop224/OfTheMark_zpsmodduief.png)
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Like most of us, I run into Mark's artwork all over the internet.
This one, I saw tonight on a Psychology forum, takes the cake.
At least that one kept the attribution.
I had a business ethics class last year that included an off the mark on the last page of the PowerPoint, on the 'any questions?' Slide.
My question was "why are you using copyrighted material without attribution in a lesson on business ethics?"
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At least that one kept the attribution.
I had a business ethics class last year that included an off the mark on the last page of the PowerPoint, on the 'any questions?' Slide.
My question was "why are you using copyrighted material without attribution in a lesson on business ethics?"
Excellent question!! What was the response?
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Excellent question!! What was the response?
Something lame like "we'll have to look into that and make corrections if needed"
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Something lame like "we'll have to look into that and make corrections if needed"
Funny - my original question was going to be "What was the lame response?" but I thought maybe I was presuming too much, so I took the "lame" out.
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Mark Parisi starts off Halloween month 2016 for October 1, 2016 of his Off The Mark strip with his Wacky Package take on Welch's Grape Jelly Halloween related:
(https://s13.postimg.org/cugsf2usz/Off_The_Mark_Wacky_Package.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/cugsf2usz/)
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From October 8, 2016 - another Halloween related Off The Mark Wacky Package take by Mark Parisi:
(https://s12.postimg.org/k63y6w6qx/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/k63y6w6qx/)
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Another Mark Parisi Halloween related Wacky Package from the October 15, 2016 Off The Mark strip:
(https://s16.postimg.org/6asnn64k1/Off_The_Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/6asnn64k1/)
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Another Halloween related Wacky Package by Mark Parisi from the October 22, 2016 Off The Mark strip:
(https://s16.postimg.org/8dxuhnlv5/Off_the_Mark_Wacky_Package.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/8dxuhnlv5/)
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I hope Mark Parisi notice his comic strip title in today's December 26, 2016 Animal Crackers comic strip done by Mike Osbun...
(https://s30.postimg.org/maq5iyy6l/Animal_Crackers.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/maq5iyy6l/)
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Here are 2 Wacky Packages Off The Mark strips from recent months done by Mark Parisi: One from December 28, 2016 spoofing Lego and one from March 4, 2017 spoofing Sierra Mist (Hope Mark did a lot of sketch entries for the upcoming 50th. Anniversary series!)L
(https://s27.postimg.org/axwu1t62n/Wacky_Packages.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/axwu1t62n/)
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The April 30, 2017 MarK Parisi Off The Mark strip featured another Wacky Packages drawing by Mark:
(https://s18.postimg.org/v2h4b30j9/Off_The_Mark_Wacky_Package.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/v2h4b30j9/)
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I have a new middle-grade chapter book out with HarperCollins called Marty Pants.
I wanted to show the couple Wacky Packages influences. First, I designed the logo to emulate the way the letters in the Wacky Packages logo randomly overlap each other. Also included a Wackyish parody of Depends (Deepens).
(https://s1.postimg.org/j9wa2h9pn/Marty_Wacky.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/j9wa2h9pn/)
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Mark, thanks for the heads up I just snagged a copy. Congrats on your first of a line of middle-grade chapter books. Let's hope the series goes on for as long as 'Off The Mark' has!
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Big Congrats to you, Mark! I actually read about this on the local news Facebook page here,
and meant to check it out!
Well deserved, as always!
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Thanks, guys! I suppose another Wackyish parody in the book is this guy.
(https://s28.postimg.org/5cd6caybd/image.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/5cd6caybd/)
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My books arrived today, and I'm really laughing already. I am truly a kid at heart!!
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First time in a long time the June 29, 2017 Mark Parisi Off The Mark strip has a non Wacky Package related lost 1987 cartoon as seen below...
(https://s10.postimg.org/ya8s9c5v9/OFF_THE_MARK.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/ya8s9c5v9/)
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This month (November 2017) marks 30 years since Mark Parisi did his first Off The Mark comic strip
And on November 4, 2017 - Mark Parisi just did this Off The Mark Wacky Packages strip - This parody of the DVD spoofing some movie is under the "LESS-SUCCESSFUL FRANCHISES" catagory:
(https://s1.postimg.org/6x78zx6hi3/Off_the_Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/6x78zx6hi3/)
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Feb. 3, 2018: From Mark Parisi's Off The Mark strip probably a reject from the upcoming Wacky Packages Go To The Movies series:
(https://s9.postimg.org/9jtsej2mj/Mark_Parisi_Wacky_Package.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/9jtsej2mj/)
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I was on Amazon today and saw that Mark's next book MARTY PANTS 2: KEEP YOUR PAWS OFF is scheduled to release February 6th. Congrats Mark!
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I was on Amazon today and saw that Mark's next book MARTY PANTS 2: KEEP YOUR PAWS OFF is scheduled to release February 6th. Congrats Mark!
Excellent news! Congratulations Mark!
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Excellent news! Congratulations Mark!
Yes, congratulations Mark! Marty Pants is on fire!
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Thanks! I might be able to offer sketch cards in exchange for people buying books...
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Thanks! I might be able to offer sketch cards in exchange for people buying books...
That would be great! I've ordered my copies.
Congrats again on your successful series! My secretary's grandkids are anxiously awaiting this, as am I.
Update 2/12/18 - Received my order, and thought it was another great book, both story and illustrations. My mom's reading it now, and enjoying it. Tomorrow I'll give my secretary her copy, so I hope to have reviews from young readers in the near future.
Is "Do Not Open" in a second printing? Hope so!
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Thanks for your feedback! I tried to write the books so a kid or an adult could enjoy it.
Sales have been OK, not great. Certainly not good enough to have a second printing at this point. Unfortunately, the promotion for the books hasn't been that strong. I'm really proud of them and hope they can break through.
Reviews on Amazon are always appreciated!
That would be great! I've ordered my copies.
Congrats again on your successful series! My secretary's grandkids are anxiously awaiting this, as am I.
Update 2/12/18 - Received my order, and thought it was another great book, both story and illustrations. My mom's reading it now, and enjoying it. Tomorrow I'll give my secretary her copy, so I hope to have reviews from young readers in the near future.
Is "Do Not Open" in a second printing? Hope so!
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Thanks for your feedback! I tried to write the books so a kid or an adult could enjoy it.
Sales have been OK, not great. Certainly not good enough to have a second printing at this point. Unfortunately, the promotion for the books hasn't been that strong. I'm really proud of them and hope they can break through.
Reviews on Amazon are always appreciated!
You should include an ad in your desk calendar next year!
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Anything can help!
Hey, I'll send you a sketch for getting the book.
You should include an ad in your desk calendar next year!
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For the March 9, 2018 OFF THE MARK strip, Mark Parisi did a Wacky Packages take on a vintage Beatles record album in memory of the late Mort Walker who created the Beetle Bailey comic strip:
(https://s9.postimg.org/dhp5cd1sr/Off_The_Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/dhp5cd1sr/)
(Now I wonder, will the next Wacky Packages Old School series (#7) ever do a Wacky Packages take on a vintage vinyl record album - Beatles or not? Maybe a Wacky Packages take on the Saturday Night Fever movie soundtrack for Old School 7 is possible)
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For the March 9, 2018 OFF THE MARK strip, Mark Parisi did a Wacky Packages take on a vintage Beatles record album in memory of the late Mort Walker who created the Beetle Bailey comic strip:
(https://s9.postimg.org/dhp5cd1sr/Off_The_Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/dhp5cd1sr/)
(Now I wonder, will the next Wacky Packages Old School series (#7) ever do a Wacky Packages take on a vintage vinyl record album - Beatles or not? Maybe a Wacky Packages take on the Saturday Night Fever movie soundtrack for Old School 7 is possible)
An OS set based on 60's-70's vintage vinyl would be awesome, as would movie posters from the same era. I remember liking the concept as used in the 'Silly CDs" release, but most of the music and artwork was less familiar to me and therefore didnt inspire the gut reaction that an iconic rock LP title would.
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Mark's Beetles/Beatles parody is a good example of the untapped potential there.
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Remember a rejected Wacky Packages ANS entry called "NoseFlix" which was a spoof on NetFlix? Mark Parisi used this name for his June 29, 2018 Off the Mark strip:
(https://s8.postimg.cc/66g1shj5d/Off_The_Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/66g1shj5d/)
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Mark Parisi did a Wacky Package take of Kellogg's Krave for Halloween 2018 in this October 6, 2018 Off The Mark strip:
(https://i.postimg.cc/Zv8xmhhK/Grave.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Zv8xmhhK)
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October 20, 2018 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip featuring another Halloween related Wacky Package by Mark himself:
(https://i.postimg.cc/Pp20Ltgv/Off-the-Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Pp20Ltgv)
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Just had to post this because I'm so tickled. I did a sketch card for Dave Pilkey (Captain Underpants, Dog Man) and he sent me this parody of Marty Pants!
(https://i.postimg.cc/4n3hTHLx/01i-Farty-Pants.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/4n3hTHLx)
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Here's the sketch card I sent him. He's a big WP fan and was thrilled CU was parodied. Who came up with the parody?
(https://i.postimg.cc/FfRQKv23/Crappin-Underpants2018.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/FfRQKv23)
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Just had to post this because I'm so tickled. I did a sketch card for Dave Pilkey (Captain Underpants, Dog Man) and he sent me this parody of Marty Pants!
(https://i.postimg.cc/4n3hTHLx/01i-Farty-Pants.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/4n3hTHLx)
That is too cool!
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That is too cool!
I second that!!
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As some of you know, I use my rejected Wacky Packages ideas for the Off the Mark comic panel. I have many at this point and was thinking of printing up my favorites, and calling the set Off the Market. I thought I would check here first to see if there's any interest. Here are samples. Happy New Year!
(https://i.postimg.cc/HrKpHGYP/otm-Samples.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/HrKpHGYP)
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Would be great to see them all in a set! Count me in!
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Very interested!!!
Alex
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Yes!
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Sounds cool Mark! I'd like to see more.
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Count me in for sure!!
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Most definitely! Thanks!
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Yes!
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Mark, definitely do this, your ideas are great!
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Absolutely!
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Great! Thanks for the responses. I'll look into this. I only have plans to do a set of 33 or so, but if it goes well I'll certainly put them all in sets.
Would be great to see them all in a set! Count me in!
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Macabre-ohydrates! MMMM..testy!
Great stuff, I'm in!
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I will take at least two sets!
Richard
#StayWacky
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Here's the sketch card I sent him. He's a big WP fan and was thrilled CU was parodied. Who came up with the parody?
(https://i.postimg.cc/FfRQKv23/Crappin-Underpants2018.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/FfRQKv23)
Good, bad or ugly, that was my parody. Cool to see you're finally doing a set! Can't wait to see it!
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As some of you know, I use my rejected Wacky Packages ideas for the Off the Mark comic panel. I have many at this point and was thinking of printing up my favorites, and calling the set Off the Market. I thought I would check here first to see if there's any interest. Here are samples. Happy New Year!
(https://i.postimg.cc/HrKpHGYP/otm-Samples.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/HrKpHGYP)
Good thinking on creating your own Wacky-style set, I'd like to see it all!
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in case you need more reassurance, I'm in!
Jim
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The idea of a parody set may be "Off the Mark" but would definitely hit the spot!
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Good, bad or ugly, that was my parody.
Awesome. You have him very happy.
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Sounds cool Mark! I'd like to see more.
Here's another:
(https://i.postimg.cc/06mFPWjm/0.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/06mFPWjm)
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I could have used a box of these this past holiday season!
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Here's another:
(https://i.postimg.cc/06mFPWjm/0.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/06mFPWjm)
Love it!
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Here's another:
(https://i.postimg.cc/06mFPWjm/0.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/06mFPWjm)
I want a production model of that! A
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Haha, me too!
I want a production model of that! A
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Making this subject active again!!!
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In that case, you should know I'm taking pre-orders for the sets!
Making this subject active again!!!
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In that case, you should know I'm taking pre-orders for the sets!
Please count me in.
Andrew
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Just gift PayPal $55 to MarkParisi@aol.com
Thanks!
Please count me in.
Andrew
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Done. Thanks for helping to keep the world "Wacky"!
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I guess I should post this here, too. Thank you to everyone who preordered! If anyone else is interested in preordering a set, now's the time. PayPal $55 to MarkParisi@aol.com and I'll include you. Thanks again!
Done. Thanks for helping to keep the world "Wacky"!
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I guess I should post this here, too. Thank you to everyone who preordered! If anyone else is interested in preordering a set, now's the time. PayPal $55 to MarkParisi@aol.com and I'll include you. Thanks again!
Hi Mark. I would like to order a set, but can you please provide a few details? How many cards in the set. Is there anything else included? Just curious since I didn't see much information about it here. Thx!
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Hi Mark. I would like to order a set, but can you please provide a few details? How many cards in the set. Is there anything else included? Just curious since I didn't see much information about it here. Thx!
Check out this other thread here.
http://www.wackypackagesforum.com/index.php?topic=5501.0
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Thank you for providing the link, Pat!
Last call for pre-orders...
http://www.wackypackagesforum.com/index.php?topic=5501.0
Check out this other thread here.
http://www.wackypackagesforum.com/index.php?topic=5501.0
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Thank you for providing the link, Pat!
Last call for pre-orders...
http://www.wackypackagesforum.com/index.php?topic=5501.0
Looking forward to this set. Can you please provide an estimate of how many sets will be made.
Thanks, Andrew
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I'm making 50 sets
Here are some images, if anyone hasn't been able to see them.
Looking forward to this set. Can you please provide an estimate of how many sets will be made.
Thanks, Andrew
(https://i.postimg.cc/CzfK1ky4/IMG-1757.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/CzfK1ky4)
(https://i.postimg.cc/QVzthSzt/IMG-1764.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/QVzthSzt)
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Wow!! This set is fantastic. Thanks so much for carrying on the WP legacy in such grand style. I also received two sketches. I laughed alot! I will enjoy
this set for years to come. Looking forward to more in the future.
Thanks, Andrew
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Thanks, Andrew! I hope to do a second set if there's the interest. It's kinda fun!
Wow!! This set is fantastic. Thanks so much for carrying on the WP legacy in such grand style. I also received two sketches. I laughed alot! I will enjoy
this set for years to come. Looking forward to more in the future.
Thanks, Andrew
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Mark!
I finally got the chance to open your set. Simply amazing. Thank you again so much for taking the time to produce this set. Fingers crossed you can make that 2nd set...or even more
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Mark!
I finally got the chance to open your set. Simply amazing. Thank you again so much for taking the time to produce this set. Fingers crossed you can make that 2nd set...or even more
That goes double for me
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Thanks! A lot of work but way more fun that I even expected.
Can youse guys let me know if there's interest in a second set?
That goes double for me
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Can youse guys let me know if there's interest in a second set?
Most certainly!
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Count me in for your second set. I’m in for your third and fourth as well :)
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Can youse guys let me know if there's interest in a second set?
Yes
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START PRINTING!!!!!!
Richard
#StayWacky
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Not Wacky Package related, but Mark P.'s Off the Mark strip did a Throwback Thursday cartoon on June 13, 2019 with a 1989 Off the Mark strip!:
(https://i.postimg.cc/VJMtMzjS/Off-the-Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/VJMtMzjS)
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The June 22, 2019 Off the Mark strip features a Wacky Package take on the Jeopardy! board game (This would have been fitting for a 2nd. or 3rd. series for a 1990's Wacky Packages series not following up the 1991 revival series - We did get a Wheel of Fortune home game parody in the 1991 series as "Wheel of Torture"):
(https://i.postimg.cc/K332QLWw/Off-the-Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/K332QLWw)
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I hope to put this one in the second Off the Market set if I can get my act together...
The June 22, 2019 Off the Mark strip features a Wacky Package take on the Jeopardy! board game (This would have been fitting for a 2nd. or 3rd. series for a 1990's Wacky Packages series not following up the 1991 revival series - We did get a Wheel of Fortune home game parody in the 1991 series as "Wheel of Torture"):
(https://i.postimg.cc/K332QLWw/Off-the-Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/K332QLWw)
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A Wacky Package take by Mark Parisi from the July 27, 2019 Off the Mark strip:
(https://i.postimg.cc/JD7htf9w/Wacky-Packages.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/JD7htf9w)
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A Wacky Package take by Mark Parisi from the July 27, 2019 Off the Mark strip:
(https://i.postimg.cc/JD7htf9w/Wacky-Packages.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/JD7htf9w)
A future Off the Mark-et card!
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The June 22, 2019 Off the Mark strip features a Wacky Package take on the Jeopardy! board game (This would have been fitting for a 2nd. or 3rd. series for a 1990's Wacky Packages series not following up the 1991 revival series - We did get a Wheel of Fortune home game parody in the 1991 series as "Wheel of Torture"):
(https://i.postimg.cc/K332QLWw/Off-the-Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/K332QLWw)
A friend of mine at my local comic book store told me yesterday that he thought that another way of doing this one could've been "Leperdy".
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Mark, I sent you a PM but just thought I'd tell you here, too.
Off the Mark-et Series 1 was excellent! I really loved it! Thank you for sending it to me!
Like I said before, I can't wait for Series 2 (which probably won't be done for a few years, since you have to publish more parodies in the comic strip) and maybe even beyond!
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Thanks so much! I really enjoyed putting it together. I have enough parodies for a second set but haven't figured out if I can afford it yet. The woman who gave me a discount at the printing place doesn't work there anymore!
Mark, I sent you a PM but just thought I'd tell you here, too.
Off the Mark-et Series 1 was excellent! I really loved it! Thank you for sending it to me!
Like I said before, I can't wait for Series 2 (which probably won't be done for a few years, since you have to publish more parodies in the comic strip) and maybe even beyond!
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Thanks so much! I really enjoyed putting it together. I have enough parodies for a second set but haven't figured out if I can afford it yet. The woman who gave me a discount at the printing place doesn't work there anymore!
Oh, that's just terrible! I hope you find a way to get it out to us at the forum very soon! I can't wait to see what's in it - and get it!
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Mark, I've got a question.
I know that Off the Mark-et Series 1 was made up of rejected Wackys, but what I'd like to know is do you happen to know which series that all of them were meant for?
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They were meant for many different series. Some of them were submitted to multiple series.
Mark, I've got a question.
I know that Off the Mark-et Series 1 was made up of rejected Wackys, but what I'd like to know is do you happen to know which series that all of them were meant for?
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They were meant for many different series. Some of them were submitted to multiple series.
Okay, thanks for telling me.
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The October 12, 2019 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi shows a Halloween related Wacky Package under the "MARKETING FAILURE" category:
(https://i.postimg.cc/T5X0LKbk/Off-the-Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/T5X0LKbk)
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BROUGHT TO YOU BY ZENITH <> WHERE THE QUALITY GOES IN BEFORE THE NAME GOES ON & BY RED WHITE AND BLUE BEER <><><>
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The October 12, 2019 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi shows a Halloween related Wacky Package under the "MARKETING FAILURE" category:
(https://i.postimg.cc/T5X0LKbk/Off-the-Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/T5X0LKbk)
Love it!
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Another Halloween related Wacky Package done by Mark Parisi for the October 19, 2019 Off the Mark strip:
(https://i.postimg.cc/m1FwHJyN/Off-The-Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/m1FwHJyN)
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Another candy related Wacky Package Off the Mark entry by Mark Parisi - October 26, 2019:
(https://i.postimg.cc/2VvfBrYx/Off-the-Mark-Wacky-Package.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/2VvfBrYx)
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The April 4, 2020 Off the Mark strip wasn't Wacky Package related, but something from Mark Parisi's sketchbook? What does it mean?:
(https://i.postimg.cc/xq5q9w1y/Off-The-Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/xq5q9w1y)
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I figure the car that looks like the number 2 is going to pass the red car. The driver of the red car is looking over their shoulder looking at the 2.
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The April 4, 2020 Off the Mark strip wasn't Wacky Package related, but something from Mark Parisi's sketchbook? What does it mean?:
(https://i.postimg.cc/xq5q9w1y/Off-The-Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/xq5q9w1y)
It's a play on words based on "This, too, shall pass."
I think Mark's trying to reassure us.
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The June 6, 2020 Off The Mark strip by Mark Parisi featured another Wacky Packages take:
(https://i.postimg.cc/68GkJ0Zt/Off-The-Mark-June-6-2020.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/68GkJ0Zt)
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June 20, 2020 Mark Parisi Off The Mark comic strip with another Mark Parisi drawn Wacky Package take...
(https://i.postimg.cc/rdxnPN8j/Hay-Day.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/rdxnPN8j)
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Check out the gift my niece-in-law gave at her shower. It's like a Wacky!
(https://i.postimg.cc/RJHrzBrK/105400763-10159865951564115-1856786302398761243-n.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/RJHrzBrK)
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Check out the gift my niece-in-law gave at her shower. It's like a Wacky!
(https://i.postimg.cc/RJHrzBrK/105400763-10159865951564115-1856786302398761243-n.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/RJHrzBrK)
Very cute.
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The July 18, 2020 Mark Parisi Off the Mark comic strip featured another Wacky Package art by Parisi - with a phrase originally shown on the Wacky Packages original sticker series 7 entry "Big Muc Hamburger":
(https://i.postimg.cc/G40Gf9Kt/Off-the-Mark-Wheat-Thicks.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/G40Gf9Kt)
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The July 18, 2020 Mark Parisi Off the Mark comic strip featured another Wacky Package art by Parisi - with a phrase originally shown on the Wacky Packages original sticker series 7 entry "Big Muc Hamburger":
(https://i.postimg.cc/G40Gf9Kt/Off-the-Mark-Wheat-Thicks.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/G40Gf9Kt)
Love it!
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Will be included in Off the Market Series 3! ;)
Love it!
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Will be included in Off the Market Series 3! ;)
Perfect!
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Will be included in Off the Market Series 3! ;)
Already preparing in advance, eh? I can't wait for this one, either!
Man, this thing is really on a roll!
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Guess what? For the July 19, 2020 Mark Parisi Off The Mark Sunday strip there is the first ever Sunday Wacky Packages related strip!:
(https://i.postimg.cc/q64c58FX/Off-the-Mark-July-19-2020.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/q64c58FX)
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Also will be in Series 3. But rest assured it looks better than that reproduction.
Guess what? For the July 19, 2020 Mark Parisi Off The Mark Sunday strip there is the first ever Sunday Wacky Packages related strip!:
(https://i.postimg.cc/q64c58FX/Off-the-Mark-July-19-2020.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/q64c58FX)
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The August 1, 2020 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip gave us another Mark Parisi Off the Mark Wacky Package...
(https://i.postimg.cc/bDRfxNyc/Off-the-Mark-Wacky-Package.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/bDRfxNyc)
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I guess these count as previews to Series 3...
The August 1, 2020 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip gave us another Mark Parisi Off the Mark Wacky Package...
(https://i.postimg.cc/bDRfxNyc/Off-the-Mark-Wacky-Package.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/bDRfxNyc)
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The July 18, 2020 Mark Parisi Off the Mark comic strip featured another Wacky Package art by Parisi - with a phrase originally shown on the Wacky Packages original sticker series 7 entry "Big Muc Hamburger":
(https://i.postimg.cc/G40Gf9Kt/Off-the-Mark-Wheat-Thicks.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/G40Gf9Kt)
This one and Work-doh from Series Two: I'm surprised no one thought of either of these long ago!
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For the August 6, 2020 Off the Mark comic strip by Mark Parisi: A cat is puting on a Wacky Package take on Purell Hand Sanitizer...
(https://i.postimg.cc/7C7RpXzq/Off-the-Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/7C7RpXzq)
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The August 29, 2020 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip featured a Wacky Packages take on a Louisville Slugger baseball bat...
(https://i.postimg.cc/ygBJyRp8/Wacky-Package.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/ygBJyRp8)
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The August 29, 2020 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip featured a Wacky Packages take on a Louisville Slugger baseball bat...
(https://i.postimg.cc/ygBJyRp8/Wacky-Package.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/ygBJyRp8)
OTM Series 3? Hopefully!
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Count me in for Series 3 OTM
Richard
#StayWacky
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I'd love to get Off the Market Series Three! The first two series have been great so far!
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Remember the Wacky Packages ANS11 Rude Food subset? Here's a possible reject (Red Mobster was used for ANS11 for the Red Lobster spoof anyway) from Mark Parisi from the September 19, 2020 Mark Parisi Off the Mark comic strip:
(https://i.postimg.cc/Fdj3Yd9G/Off-The-Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Fdj3Yd9G)
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The November 14, 2020 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi featured a Wacky Packages take on Ritz Crackers:
(https://i.postimg.cc/XZs7V2XF/Wrist.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/XZs7V2XF)
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The November 14, 2020 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi featured a Wacky Packages take on Ritz Crackers:
(https://i.postimg.cc/XZs7V2XF/Wrist.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/XZs7V2XF)
Um, er... that's not it.
This is it.
(https://i.postimg.cc/R3VBcp5J/125414814-10160307325219115-2951706454760156250-n.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/R3VBcp5J)
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How's Off the Market Series Three going, Mark? Any news on when it's coming so I can prepare?
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Thanks for asking. It's about done. I just have a lot of projects and have to get my ass in gear!
How's Off the Market Series Three going, Mark? Any news on when it's coming so I can prepare?
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You said a naughty word
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The December 29, 2020 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip: Notice the potato chip bag where the talking potato chips came from has what might be a future Wacky Packages take on Wise Potato Chips?:
(https://i.postimg.cc/6yyJpx1y/Off-The-Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/6yyJpx1y)
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Um, er... that's not it.
This is it.
(https://i.postimg.cc/R3VBcp5J/125414814-10160307325219115-2951706454760156250-n.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/R3VBcp5J)
Mark, is this one going to be in Series Three, too?
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Yes there is! There's another thread going where I'm taking preorders. I'll post it here, too.
Set includes:
33 base set
11 bonus cards
1 Hand-numbered title card
4-piece puzzle
9-piece puzzle
2 Checklists
3 Color variant sketch cards - watercolor/ink sketches
(I made the set so it will fill out 7 of the 9-card pocket pages.)
$45 shipped, no sketch card
$55 shipped, includes one sketch card
$70 shipped, includes all 3 sketch card variants
You can preorder and PayPal to MarkParisi@aol.com right now if you like. Be sure your address is included. Thanks again!
(https://i.postimg.cc/dDxHnNB0/otm-Title3.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/dDxHnNB0)
Mark, is this one going to be in Series Three, too?
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The May 29, 2021 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip features a Wacky Packages take on Tony's Pizza:
(https://i.postimg.cc/G9T9hRhv/Off-the-Mark-May-29-2021.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/G9T9hRhv)
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Yes there is! There's another thread going where I'm taking preorders. I'll post it here, too.
Set includes:
33 base set
11 bonus cards
1 Hand-numbered title card
4-piece puzzle
9-piece puzzle
2 Checklists
3 Color variant sketch cards - watercolor/ink sketches
(I made the set so it will fill out 7 of the 9-card pocket pages.)
$45 shipped, no sketch card
$55 shipped, includes one sketch card
$70 shipped, includes all 3 sketch card variants
You can preorder and PayPal to MarkParisi@aol.com right now if you like. Be sure your address is included. Thanks again!
(https://i.postimg.cc/dDxHnNB0/otm-Title3.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/dDxHnNB0)
Loved it! Can't wait for Series Four!
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The June 26, 2021 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip featured a Wacky Packages take off by Parisi on Cheerios cereal:
(https://i.postimg.cc/LnY601Gw/Cheeriooze-Off-The-Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/LnY601Gw)
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The August 14, 2021 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi featured a Wacky Packages take on Post's Honey Bunches of Oats cereal:
(https://i.postimg.cc/V56fjyFz/Off-the-Mark-Wacky-Package-August-14-2021.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/V56fjyFz)
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The September 18, 2021 Mark Parisi Off The Mark strip featured a Wacky Package take on Degree deodorant:
(https://i.postimg.cc/47DgJMts/Off-the-Mark-Wacky-Package-Dogee.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/47DgJMts)
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Hey Mark, how's Off the Market Series Four going? Any progress? Count me on for a basic set (no sketch cards, please) when it happens, as usual!
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The October 15, 2021 Off The Mark comic strip by Mark Parisi featured a Wacky Packages take on York Peppermint Pattie Shakesphere style:
(https://i.postimg.cc/DJQQ6sJH/Wacky-Packages-Off-The-Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/DJQQ6sJH)
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The October 20, 2021 Mark Parisi Off the Mark comic strip featured another Halloween related Wacky Package take - this time a spoof of Pay Day candy bar:
(https://i.postimg.cc/RNdBqLhg/Off-the-Mark-Wacky-Package-Prey-Day.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/RNdBqLhg)
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The October 31, 2021 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip featured a Wacky Package take on M&M's that's Halloween related, and it's the second Sunday Off The Mark strip to feature a Mark Parisi Wacky Package, of course!:
(https://i.postimg.cc/Tp2rSwk6/Off-the-Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Tp2rSwk6)
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and congratulations to Mark as well, a few days back I happened to notice that the guest artist for my local paper's "Jumble" puzzle was none other than Mr. Parisi.
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and congratulations to Mark as well, a few days back I happened to notice that the guest artist for my local paper's "Jumble" puzzle was none other than Mr. Parisi.
Nice! And I saw Mark won the 2020 National Cartoonist Society Best in Newspaper Panels Award. Congrats Mark!!
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Thanks, Paul and thanks, Mike! :-[
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Thanks, Paul and thanks, Mike! :-[
I keep asking for your strip to be added to Newsday, but no luck so far :'(
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Thanks, Paul and thanks, Mike! :-[
Mark, I continue to run across your strips in unexpected places, which always brings a smile. I belong to a Facebook group for owners of smooth collies and this showed up shortly before Halloween:
(https://i.postimg.cc/G9M1Mz6Y/251111754-10227045763632506-4685457454762019963-n.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/G9M1Mz6Y)
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I appreciate your effort! :D
I keep asking for your strip to be added to Newsday, but no luck so far :'(
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The weirdest place my cartoons showed up this Halloween was Kim Basinger's house. She posted pictures on Instagram of my cartoons hanging up among knives, blood, spider webs, etc. Pretty surreal.
Mark, I continue to run across your strips in unexpected places, which always brings a smile. I belong to a Facebook group for owners of smooth collies and this showed up shortly before Halloween:
(https://i.postimg.cc/G9M1Mz6Y/251111754-10227045763632506-4685457454762019963-n.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/G9M1Mz6Y)
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Mark, I've got one question.
How many series of Off the Market do you think will be done before you finally catch up with yourself?
Oh, and I'm still waiting for Off the Market Series Four!
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Not sure. There are at least two more!
Mark, I've got one question.
How many series of Off the Market do you think will be done before you finally catch up with yourself?
Oh, and I'm still waiting for Off the Market Series Four!
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Mark, I've got one question.
How many series of Off the Market do you think will be done before you finally catch up with yourself?
And if he catches up with himself, will he then be one with himself?
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Not sure. There are at least two more!
Thanks, Mark! Now I have something of an idea of what to expect in the future.
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And if he catches up with himself, will he then be one with himself?
Ah, good one! But seriously, I just wanted something of an idea of what to expect in the future, as mentioned above.
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Have been off the Forum for a while, is there a full set with 3 sketch variations still available?
Richard
#StayWacky
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Mark, any progress on Off the Market Series Four?
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I should get started on that!
Mark, any progress on Off the Market Series Four?
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I should get started on that!
Yes, I think you should. I'll be waiting for it!
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I am looking to purchase a Series 3 if anyone can help me,
Richard
#StayWacky
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I can help you. Send me a PM.
I am looking to purchase a Series 3 if anyone can help me,
Richard
#StayWacky
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Thanks to F&S!
Richard
#StayWacky
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The March 15, 2022 Off the Mark by Mark Parisi strip featured a Wacky Packages take on Lucky Charms:
(https://i.postimg.cc/0zByNmPX/Off-the-Mark-Wacky-Packages.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/0zByNmPX)
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Hey Mark, any news and/or progress on Off the Market Series Four yet?
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On the Memorial Day (May 30, 2022) Mark Parisi drawn Off the Mark strip, it wasn't Wacky Package drawn style - but a funny take on the WEBER GRILL in time for the Summer barbecue season:
(https://i.postimg.cc/zyByxPyD/Off-The-Mark.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/zyByxPyD)
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That's good!
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I wonder if Mark "Off The Mark" Parisi is friends with Scott Hilburn (Argyle Sweater) and/or Dan Thompson (Brevity).
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Is today the 35th. anniversary of the launch of Mark Parisi's Off the Mark comic strip? I guess this cartoon may prove it: https://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2022/09/10
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Is today the 35th. anniversary of the launch of Mark Parisi's Off the Mark comic strip? I guess this cartoon may prove it: https://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2022/09/10
35 years is impressive, congrats Mark!!
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Dan Thompson is one of my best friends.
I wonder if Mark "Off The Mark" Parisi is friends with Scott Hilburn (Argyle Sweater) and/or Dan Thompson (Brevity).
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Thanks! Weird thing is I just turned 33.
35 years is impressive, congrats Mark!!
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Mark, any news and/or progress on Off the Mark-et Series Four?
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The December 3, 2022 Mark Parisi Off the Mark comic strip featured a Wacky Package spoofing Hot Wheels.
(https://i.postimg.cc/zbjW92LH/Scan-20221203.png) (https://postimg.cc/zbjW92LH)
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Yes! Off the Mark-et series 4 is in the works.
Mark, any news and/or progress on Off the Mark-et Series Four?
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Yes! Off the Mark-et series 4 is in the works.
Thanks! i'll be waiting for it; please let me know when it's ready.
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That is awesome news!!
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Not Mark Parisi Wacky related: This week the Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip was rerunning the December 5-10, 2016 week for the week of December 5, 10, 2022 because the GoComics.com site had an outage a week before Thanksgiving and so many cartoons owned by Andrews McMeel missed the deadline for the December 5-10, 2022 week.
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Ready to purchase S4!
Richard
#StayWacky
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The Mark Parisi Off The Mark January 28, 2023 strip featured another Wacky Package drawing by Mark himself...
(https://i.postimg.cc/t7jss0jG/Off-The-Mark-Wacky-Packages-1-28-2023.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/t7jss0jG)
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The Mark Parisi Off The Mark January 28, 2023 strip featured another Wacky Package drawing by Mark himself...
(https://i.postimg.cc/t7jss0jG/Off-The-Mark-Wacky-Packages-1-28-2023.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/t7jss0jG)
Hopefully part of S4!
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As you may have guessed, a lot of the gags in this thread are in the new Off the Market series 4.
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As you may have guessed, a lot of the gags in this thread are in the new Off the Market series 4.
....which comes out WHEN?
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I'm taking the preorders but I still have a couple cards that need to be reprinted, I need to collate a couple hundred sets, and I need to do the sketches. So... I don't know!
....which comes out WHEN?
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I'm taking the preorders but I still have a couple cards that need to be reprinted, I need to collate a couple hundred sets, and I need to do the sketches. So... I don't know!
That's all right, Mark, take as long as you need to. I'm sure it'll be great, as usual.
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The May 3, 2023 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip features a Wacky Package take on Kindle as part of the MARKETING FAILURE series:
(https://i.postimg.cc/Yh4yRrTX/Scan-20230603-3.png) (https://postimg.cc/Yh4yRrTX)
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The October 14, 2023 Mark Parisi Off The Mark strip featured a Halloween leaning Wacky Package take on Red Bull: https://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2023/10/14
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The October 20, 2023 Mark Parisi Off the Mark strip featured a Wacky Package Halloween take on Behold furniture polish that could have fit in a Wacky Packages Old School 1970's series: https://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2023/10/20
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March 25, 2024 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi showing a takeoff of Marshmallow Peeps with Wile E. Coyote: https://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2024/03/25
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March 25, 2024 Off the Mark strip by Mark Parisi showing a takeoff of Marshmallow Peeps with Wile E. Coyote: https://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2024/03/25
Shouldn't that have been "Marshmallow Beeps"?
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Shouldn't that have been "Marshmallow Beeps"?
No. The Roadrunner says "Meep-Meep!" in all of the cartoons, so Mark has presented an accurate representation.
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No. The Roadrunner says "Meep-Meep!" in all of the cartoons, so Mark has presented an accurate representation.
Oh, I always thought that it was "Beep-beep!"
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Oh, I always thought that it was "Beep-beep!"
Maybe it was supposed to be, but it always sounded like "Meep, meep!" The way the chorus to "Rock the Casbah" sounds like something different.
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Well not to be taken as gospel but the 1973 Pepsi Collectors series glass says…
(https://i.postimg.cc/Mf1jKQhq/IMG-8355.webp) (https://postimg.cc/Mf1jKQhq)